Do you think that I have come to
bring peace to the earth; I have not come to bring peace, but a sword. For
I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother,
and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. Jesus - Matthew 10:34

The
truth is often paradoxical. Lao Tzu - Tao te Ching

There is no commentary between May 2003 and August 2003.

May 25, 2003 The Bush administration, alarmed by intelligence suggesting
that al-Qaida operatives in Iran had a role in the May 12 suicide bombings in
Saudi Arabia, has cut off once-promising contacts with Iran and appears ready to
embrace an aggressive policy of trying to destabilize the Iranian government,
administration officials said. No bin-Laden, No
weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, no Saddam, now lies are being
manufactured about Iran - if George gets re-elected, look out Iran.

May 5, 2003
A
superpower like the United States does not invade a pipsqueak power like
Iraq ? outside the framework of international law and against worldwide
opposition ? only for its publicly stated reasons, in this case,
fighting terrorism, liberating Iraq and triggering a domino effect for the
democratization of the Middle East. The real American agenda is only now becoming clearer.
The conquest of Iraq is enabling a new Pax Americana that goes
well beyond the much-discussed control of oil, as central as that is to
the enterprise.

May 4, 2003 Iraq's alleged possession of such weapons was Bush's main rationale for war, but none has been found since Saddam's government fell more than three weeks ago.
Bush and other U.S. officials had indicated that coalition troops may come up empty in their hunt, saying it is possible that weapons were destroyed before or during the U.S.-led war. On Saturday, a senior Bush aide offered another explanation, saying initial information suggests Iraq's weapons programs was geared mostly toward just-in-time production.
Powell
rejects Syrian weapon proposal aimed at Israel

03 May 2003

US Secretary of State Colin Powell today turned aside the idea of
immediate US support for an Arab-backed UN resolution on ridding the
Middle East of weapons of mass destruction ? a proposal obviously
aimed at Israel.

Going into his meeting with Syrian President Bashar Assad in
Damascus, Powell said clearing destructive weapons from the region was
a long-standing US goal, but now was not the time to address that
matter.

Syria introduced such a resolution in the UN Security Council on
Friday. Ambassador Mikhail Wehbe said it could enhance the chances for
peace in light of the new US-backed "road map" to peace that
is now before Israelis and Palestinians.

Israel is widely believed to have nuclear weapons, but refuses to confirm or
deny the claim. It is not party to global treaties aimed at controlling the
spread of nuclear, chemical or biological weapons.

April 30, 2003 The looting of Baghdad's National Museum robbed the
world of treasures dating from the dawn of civilization. The missing antiquities - works of art resplendent with gold and
jewels, clay tablets on which the ancient Epic of Gilgamesh was first
recorded, vast amounts of pottery, statuary, armaments, coins - are often
described as priceless. But they are not. On the black market, everything has a price.
As experts scramble to determine just what is missing, the world's top
cops and scholar-sleuths are scouring the globe for a rogue's gallery of
thieves and smugglers who apparently knew exactly what they wanted and
just how to get it. Fueling speculation that the ransacking of the museum was used to cover
up evidence of an inside job, valuable items were taken while lesser items
were ignored, and documents that would allow objects to be tracked were
destroyed. It is a saga of international intrigue worthy of Indiana Jones, and the
hunt is on for the traders of the lost art.

Aids-drugs cuts avoid lawsuit
- There is a price to life !29/04/2003 09:31 - (SA)

Los Angeles - The Aids Healthcare Foundation has dropped a lawsuit against
GlaxoSmithKline after the pharmaceuticals giant agreed to slash Aids drugs
prices by 47& for the world's poorest countries.

The foundation filed a suit in February in Los Angeles superior court
accusing GSK of charging 600% more than its rivals for Aids medicines in Central
America, India and Africa.

The British-based company announced on Monday it was reducing the price of
its main antiretroviral medication Combivir by 47% to 90 US cents (about R6.60)
for non-profit customers in developing nations.

Ged Kenslea, for the foundation, said the lawsuit would be dropped and called
its turnabout "pretty groundbreaking".

"We believe GSK can do more, but they are the largest manufacturer of
HIV medications, and many of their drugs truly offer the best hope in poor
nations," he said.

Still, the foundation has two additional lawsuits pending against the
company.

GSK has to report before July to the California Public Employees' Retirement
System, which holds $20.2m (about R147.7m) in company shares, on its Aids drugs
pricing. - Sapa-AFP

April 27, 2003 Where are those Iraqi weapons of mass
destruction, in the
pursuit of which George W Bush went to war and over which decade-long,
American-led economic sanctions killed 1 million civilians, half of them
children? And, where is Saddam Hussein? And his entourage, besides Tariq
Aziz?
In the same nether land as Osama bin Laden and Mullah Mohammed Omar.

The cost of advocating peace.

Maines did apologize, admitting on March 14 that ''whoever holds that office
should be treated with the utmost respect.'' The angry masses were not
mollified. Message boards were flooded with cries of ''Natalie Fonda'' and far
worse. Sales of their current album, ''Home,'' plummeted from 124,000 the week
the story broke to 33,000 a week -- the result, Renshaw says, of the group's
near-complete absence from radio. The ongoing campaign against the trio (which
also includes Martie's sister, banjo player and new mom Emily Robison, 30) has
many Americans vowing that the Chicks should do better than just take a hiatus:
They should simply end their careers.

Two months ago, imagining the Chicks playing a game of defense was
inconceivable. They were uniters, not dividers, having proved that country music
could cross all kinds of boundaries without ever getting watered down as
''crossover.'' Their major-label debut, ''Wide Open Spaces,'' was 11 times
platinum; the follow-up, ''Fly,'' platinum 10 times over; despite its current
woes, ''Home'' is a certified 6-million-seller after just nine months. On March
1, they set a one-day concert dollars record, selling $49 million in tickets for
their upcoming U.S. tour. They are, quite simply, the most important act in the
contemporary history of country. ''They singularly revived the music,'' says
Brian Philips, general manager of cable channel CMT. ''The thought of country
music ever carrying on without them is just unthinkable.''

April 26, 2003 President Bush raised the possibility on Thursday that Saddam Hussain's
government destroyed the prohibited chemical and biological weapons that
were the justification for the United States invasion of Iraq. Well
isn't that interesting.

April 25, 2003 The Ministry of Defense
(MoD) announced the screening programmed after
concerns were raised about the effects of exposure to DU, including a
possible greater risk of cancer or kidney damage. Britain's leading scientific body - the Royal Society - claimed
soldiers and civilians may have been exposed to dangerous levels. The
question is what is going to be done with all the DU laying around Iraq which
is killing unsuspecting children and adults?

April 25, 2003 Illegal immigrants with no known links to terrorist groups can
be detained indefinitely on national-security grounds, Attorney General John
Ashcroft said in a precedent-setting ruling that became public yesterday. I
guess we are going to have to house ten million illegal immigratants from
Mexico and South America now. Or what is more likely Ashcroft will just
pick and chose who he wants to incarcerate. Who knows, street people
without personal ID's may be part of the detainees.

April 25, 2003 The United States has reacted angrily to comments today by Kofi
Annan, the UN Secretary General, that the coalition in Iraq is an
"occupying power" and must respect international law.
Mr. Annan told the UN Human Rights Commission: "I hope the coalition
will set an example by making clear that they intend to act
strictly within the rules governing the occupation of conquered
nations." Mr. Annan cited the 1949 Geneva Conventions and the 1907 Hague
Convention, which set down the responsibilities of occupiers -
ranging from maintaining public order to collecting taxes.

April 24, 2003 The sugar industry in the US is threatening to bring the World Health
Organisation to its knees by demanding that Congress end its funding unless the
WHO scraps guidelines on healthy eating, due to be published on Wednesday.
The threat is being described by WHO insiders as tantamount to
blackmail and worse than any pressure exerted by the tobacco lobby.

April 24, 2003 American forces are changing their search strategy after coming up empty at
most of the top suspected weapons sites in Iraq, officials said today. And the
White House appeared to be trying to scale back expectations that weapons of
mass destruction will be found. Troops have searched more than 80 sites that pre-war US intelligence judged
the most likely hiding places for chemical and biological weapons as well as
evidence of an Iraqi nuclear program, Defence Department officials said on
condition of anonymity.

April 24, 2003 Speaking about cluster bombs
Paul McCartney said: "It would be great to outlaw
these cowardly weapons. What happens after the war finishes is that it's the
civilians - mainly women and children - who get blown up. A lot of people agree
that there are other ways to do it. I don't want anyone to fight anyone."

April 20, 2003 The really big prize for the
international community in Iraq is not the administration of the country, nor
reconstruction contracts, but an ultimate international ownership of the oil
that lies under Iraqi ground. This would conform with the U.S. interest, because
in oil matters the U.S. interest coincides with the interest of the overwhelming
majority worldwide.

April 20, 2003 In a speech in the Senate on 19 March, the first day of war against Iraq, Robert
Byrd, the Democrat Senator from West Virginia, asked: 'What is happening to this
country? When did we become a nation which ignores and berates our friends? When
did we decide to risk undermining international order by adopting a radical and
doctrinaire approach to using our awesome military might? How can we abandon
diplomacy when the turmoil in the world cries out for diplomacy?' No one bothered to answer, but as the American military
machine currently in Iraq stirs restlessly in other directions, these questions
give urgency to the failure, if not the corruption, of democracy.

April 20, 2003 The United Nations is to be cut out of any involvement in the hunt for weapons
of mass destruction 'for the foreseeable future', after Washington made it clear
it sees no role for Hans Blix or the Unmovic inspections team. Well
if you are going to manufacture evidence, you do not want anyone around who
cannot be bought off.

April 20, 2003 Beneath
the uniformity of a US media high on victory in Iraq, a wave of books of a
heretical flavor is flooding the bestseller lists. At
number five in the New York Times bestsellers and climbing Amazon's chart is
The Best Democracy Money Can Buy, a collection of essays by journalist
Greg Palast, one of a triad known as the 'Angry White Men' - a play on the
title at number six in the chart, Stupid White Men by film director Michael
Moore, with 500,000 sales. The third in the 'axis of anti' is Noam
Chomsky, whose controversial 9/11 - in which he calls America 'a leading
terrorist state' - has 205,000 copies in print.

April 19, 2003 It is time to deal
with Castro by opening up communications and trade for the purposes of ending
his brand of communism. Isolation only continues the problem.
Hopefully George will not claim that our satellites saw Castro looking at a
picture of Osama and Saddam as an excuse to invade. Or decide it is time
to finish the invasion the U S tried in the early sixties. Earlier
this month, while Iraq was dominating the news, Fidel Castro quietly
imprisoned nearly 100 of Cuba's dissidents, independent journalists, human
rights activists and intellectuals. In the 1970s, when the United
States was signaling a willingness to end its Cuban embargo, Mr. Castro sent
troops to Angola. In 1980, when Jimmy Carter opened a de facto embassy in
Havana, Mr. Castro flooded Florida with refugees. In 1996, when Bill Clinton's
administration was set to sign migration and drug interdiction accords with
Havana, Cuba shot down two planes operated by a U.S.-based exile group. Mr.
Castro's latest move fits in perfectly with this pattern. In recent years,
pressure to permit agricultural exports and travel to Cuba has grown stronger
in Washington. Leading elements of the politically powerful Cuban exile
community in south Florida are leaning toward engagement with Mr. Castro's
regime as well. Thus came the recent crackdown in Havana, which has destroyed
any hope of d?tente.

Frail pope starts Easter events, prays for
WorldPeace

The pope, calling the Colosseum a "silent witness to power and dominion" as well
as bloody spectacles in the days of the Roman emperors, asked God to "look upon
the blood poured out from so many victims of hate, war and terrorism and kindly
permit that the course of world events play out according to your will in
justice and peace."

April 19, 2003 The greatest tragedy of all has been the failure to prepare a political
future. To invade Iraq without having a well-thought-out political plan was an
extraordinary miscalculation. Now the forces suppressed for the last quarter of
a century are emerging. None are friendly to the US or its vision for the Middle
East. What exactly did the Allies believe would emerge when it burst open the
doors of Saddam's demented republic? Peace, democracy, secularism?

April 18, 2003 Can
anyone take the Pope serious regarding tolerance for Islam when he has little
tolerance for Christians who are not Catholics? In the first act of his busy Easter season, Pope John Paul II yesterday warned
Catholics against taking holy communion delivered by ministers of other
denominations. The strongly worded encyclical, sent to bishops around the world, raised
fears that the pontiff may be hardening his line on inter-faith communion.

April 18, 2003 They protected
every drop of oil, but when it came to protecting 4,000 years of cultural
heritage, the US-British forces looked the other way. Not only Asia?s past but
its historical-religious connection with Europe was carried away piece by piece
by the looters.??

April 16, 2003 Iraq's heritage has been stolen.
Ancient and priceless
artifacts documenting the development of mankind are missing, rare manuscripts
set alight and artwork snatched. Baghdad's museums, galleries and libraries are empty shells, looted and
torched almost overnight by gangs operating in the security vacuum which
accompanied last week's invasion of the city by U.S. forces and the fall of
Saddam Hussein.

April 16, 2003 The International Human Genome Sequencing Consortium announced Monday
that it had completed the mapping of the human genome two years ahead of
schedule and $300 million under its originally projected budget. In June 2000, the consortium announced it had finished a rough draft of the
sequence and had since then worked to polish its decoding techniques. The
current vision of the genome has been sequenced to an accuracy of 99.99 percent
and is considered highly reliable. "Everyone is different. Now that there is a
basic outline, work can be started so that mapping an individual's genome could
be done for $20 or $100 instead of $3 billion." While
George is thinking about killing more people in the Middle East, and SARS is
killing people world wide, science is unraveling the DNA formula for a human
being which is going to change the global civilization.

April 15, 2003 As fighting wanes in Iraq, Israeli and Palestinian leaders
are positioning themselves for an expected U.S.-led push to end 30 months
of Mideast fighting that has killed thousands and whipped up anti-American
sentiment across the Arab world. Their best bet is "road map" to Palestinian statehood, a
three-year plan that President Bush pledges to formally present after a
reformist Palestinian Cabinet is sworn in, possibly within days. Israeli critics have accused Sharon, a career hawk, of misleading the
world by hinting at moderate intentions while cracking down on the
Palestinians and expanding Jewish settlements - a project he has
championed for decades. Skeptics saw such obfuscation even in Sharon's Haaretz interview - in
which he suggested the Palestinians needed, as a first step, to renounce
their demand for a "right of return" to Israel. That demand - which Israel fears could erase the state's Jewish
character - helped scuttle the last peace negotiations in early 2001.
The plan offers no clear final formula for resolving issues that
ruined the previous peace effort - permanent borders, the fate of refugees
and the status of Jerusalem.

April 14, 2003 The
Bush administration placed Syria in its diplomatic crosshairs yesterday
as officials from President George W. Bush on down warned Damascus to
cooperate and stop providing a safe haven to senior officials of Saddam
Hussein's vanquished regime.
"The Syrian government needs to cooperate with the United States and our
coalition partners and not harbor any - any Baathists, any military officials,
any people who need to be held to account for their tenure during what we are
learning more and more about," Bush cautioned in response to questions
from reporters on the White House lawn. The
president cited the long-held U.S. position that Syria has chemical weapons.
The statement and the intensified pressure added to the growing perception
that administration hawks have found in Syria a replacement for Iraq as a
member of the notorious "axis of evil."

April 14, 2003 The Iraq war had created an opening for reaching an
Israeli-Palestinian peace deal more quickly than expected, and Israel was
willing to give up some Jewish settlements, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said in
an interview published yesterday. Sharon is considered the leading architect of Jewish settlement expansion
over the past three decades. Despite the apparent softening of some positions, Sharon reiterated in the
interview with the Haaretz daily that Israel had major reservations about a US
backed "road map" to Palestinian statehood by 2005. Among other things,
Sharon wants a clause added that Palestinians drop their
insistence on the "right of return" of Palestinian refugees before
final peace talks.

Feedback: Dear John,

Wonderful site.

I have published the URL in the Ancient Near East List.
I grasped the opportunity when the media told the world about the looting of
the Bagdad musea.

The history of Sumer, Babylon etc... is stolen.

US goverment was warned and asked to protect these places.
It was not, it was looted.

Sad.

Thank you for your excellent work.

Peace,
chris c
belgium

There seems to me to be
little difference between the destruction of the artifacts in Iraq, the cradle
of western civilization, and the destruction of all the Inca, Aztec and Mayan
records when Spain invaded the Americas. The Christians burned the Library
of Alexandria, they destroyed all the history of the native peoples of North and
South America and now they are apathetic about the history of civilization that
we now control in Iraq. It took fifty years for the Dead Sea Scrolls to be
published. There is a desire by Christians and Jews to erase all the
historical documents which undeniably are the foundation of their sacred and
holy scripts. Inside the borders of America, religious prejudice is not
tolerated. Outside the borders of America, there is an ongoing war against
non-Christian.

WorldPeace

Powell deals Syria new warning

Powell says banned weapons will be found. Syria must not
become a safe haven to Iraqi officials fleeing Baghdad, US Secretary General
Colin Powell has told the BBC. In a fresh warning to Syria, Mr Powell said it should not help Iraqi
officials who should be brought to justice in their own country.

April 13, 2003 The men showed up at the end of the party
celebrating the new school. They broke windows, ripped a poster in half, tore
a skeleton system off the wall. They set fire to biscuits and books. Abdul Bari Rohani hid his ID badge under a mattress. But the men found it.
"They looked at my identification card and said, 'Who is this headmaster,
this Abdul Bari - son of George W. Bush? We are looking for him,'" said
Rohani, who managed to escape detection. A group led by the former spokesman for Taliban leader Mullah Omar and
supported by Osama bin Laden was responsible for burning the schools, he said.
No one has been arrested. "The people who used to be against education are the Taliban,"
Khakrizwal said. "They are behind this. They want everybody to grow up
illiterate and uneducated like them." George
is good at killing terrorist and destabilizing nations but not so good at
rebuilding them, especially if they ahve no resources to exploit.

April 13, 2003 A reader's letter published in the Los Angeles Times said
it all: "We have learned two things from the war in Iraq. We have learned
that the Tigris flows through Baghdad, and the Hubris flows through the White
House." Hubris - the belief that you are so clever and so powerful that you
can get away with anything - was certainly the prevailing state of mind in
Washington this past week as the Iraqi regime collapsed before the U.S.
onslaught. So where is the next war?

Consider the remarks of former Central Intelligence Agency James Woolsey, a Bush
administration insider who was recently mentioned in a leaked Pentagon document
as one of the possible administrators of post-war Iraq. Last week in Los
Angeles, he described the war in Iraq as the start of the Fourth World War (the
Cold War being the third), and warned his audience that "this Fourth World
War, I think, will last considerably longer than either the First or Second
World Wars did for us."

The real enemies this time, he explained, were the religious rulers of Iran, the
"fascists" of Iraq and Syria, and the Islamic extremists of al Qaeda.
He made no distinctions between them (though in real life they have very little
in common), and he promised a long crusade against them. There was no suggestion
that the United States would bother to get legal authority from the United
Nations before attacking the sovereign states on his list.

April 13, 2003 With the fall of Baghdad last week, Americans exulted, hoped for a quick end
to the war and talked about brighter times ahead. In reality, it may take
months, maybe longer, for the national and regional economies to rebound.
Some experts say that fundamental problems - weak corporate profits, a
reluctance by businesses to spend on capital improvements, lukewarm consumer
confidence, directionless stock markets - leave the economy in the same
precarious position as it was during the run-up to war and the 3 1/2 weeks of
fighting. "I don?t see the end of the war producing any kind of major economic
turnaround, at least not in the short term," said Jordan Kaplan, a
professor of managerial science at Long Island University. "The war is a
convenient explanation for why the economy looks bad, but it?s not
everything." Employment is the top concern. As former
Daddy Bush learned, voters might care less about victory in the Middle East
and more about where the economy stands when the next election comes around,
as it will in about 18 months. Hey George, "It's the economy,
stupid"

April 13, 2003 As part of global protest against the war of invasion in Iraq,
thousands of anti-war protesters marched various streets in the city yesterday.
Activists of different socio-cultural organizations, professional bodies,
student organizations, development agencies and major political parties took
part in the demonstrations separately.

April 13, 2003 Make no mistake - Turkey is not bluffing when it comes to the future status of
northern Iraq. The tens of thousands of Turkish soldiers on the border are not there just
for show. The military observers accompanying American forces into Kirkuk are
not simply a display of Turkish influence.

April 13, 2003 Looters have sacked Baghdad's antiquities museum, plundering treasures dating back thousands of years to the dawn of
civilization in Mesopotamia, museum staff said on Saturday. They blamed U.S. troops for not protecting the treasures.

April 12, 2003 This is no time for
gloating. Saddam has fallen. Many Iraqis are relieved. But the world is no
safer. Indeed, it is a scarier place. Consider the words of the North
Korean Foreign Ministry this week: "The Iraqi war shows that to allow
disarmament through inspections does not help avert war, but rather sparks
it." It concluded with unerring logic that "only tremendous military
deterrent force" can prevent attacks on nations that America
dislikes. This is the lesson for other rogue
states: arm to the teeth, develop nuclear weapons and spurn the
Non-Proliferation Treaty. Then the US may desist from invasion.

April 12, 2003 Turkey
held out the option of deploying more troops to northern Iraq yesterday, if
Kurdish fighters failed to relinquish control of two key cities in the region.Ankara announced that troops along the border with Iraq were
poised to go in after being alarmed by jubilant Kurdish peshmerga pouring into
the oil-rich cities of Kirkuk and Mosul. Will the invasion
of Iraq lead to the U S making war on Turkey? Stay tuned!

April 12, 2003 War against Iraq was a foregone conclusion months before the first shot was
fired, the chief weapons inspector Hans Blix has claimed. In a scathing attack on Britain and the US, Mr Blix accused them of planning
the war "well in advance" and of "fabricating" evidence
against Iraq to justify their campaign.

April 12, 2003 The
U S plans to run Iraq's oil industry until an Iraqi interim
authority can take it over, sources familiar with the evolving plan
said on Friday. WOW! Who would have guessed that?

April 12, 2003 Warmonger Bush has urged Syria to shut its borders to
fleeing followers of Saddam Hussein and turn over any who have already
found "safe haven" in Iraq's western neighbor. "We expect them to do everything they can to prevent people who
should be held to account from escaping in their country. And if they are in their country, we expect the Syrian
authorities to turn them over to the proper folks. We strongly urge them (Syrian leaders) not to allow for Baath
party members, or Saddam's families, or generals on the run, to seek safe
haven and find safe haven there," said Bush. Syria "just needs to know we expect full cooperation," he
said. Looks like Bush has begun to parrot
Rumsfeld regarding laying the ground work for an invasion of Syria.

April 12, 2003 A growing number of
humanitarian organizations urged the Bush administration yesterday to take
"urgent measures" to restore order in Iraq, saying they do not
believe U.S. and British troops are doing nearly enough to secure Iraq's
cities, protect civilians and safeguard critical facilities such as hospitals.
In Geneva, the International Committee of the Red Cross said in a statement
that it is "profoundly alarmed by the chaos currently prevailing in
Baghdad and other parts of Iraq." It said the medical system in Baghdad
"has virtually collapsed," with hospitals closed due to combat
damage, looting and fear of looting. The bottom
line seems to be the oil, the oil, the oil. "Let them eat
sand", Dubya says.The U S military has taken Iraq in three weeks.
There have been no weapons of mass destruction found. The Iraqis were
fighting with antiquated military hardware. No
one can deny that the Iraqis were never a threat to the United States.
And we cannot deny that the Pentagon and CIA knew that Saddam was just a wind
bag. George destroyed Afghanistan without finding bin-Laden. Now he
has gone a long way to destroying Iraq without finding Saddam. In Iraq we
have proved that there are no weapons of mass destruction, we have ended
Saddam's regime and we now have all that Iraqi oil. So we will see what
George has in mind for the Iraqis. I think he may be planning to keep
American forces in Iraq hoping for a provocation from Syria or Iran. He
is waiting for some Syrian teenager to throw a rock at an Abrams tank. Or
maybe he will find an Iranian in Iraq with an expired visa and who once
possessed a newspaper with an article about bin-Laden in it.
Better yet, he is about to assure us that all of Saddam's weapons of mass
destruction were moved to Syria before the war with the help of thousands of
Iranian donkey carts. - WorldPeace

April 11, 2003 The European Union
(EU) expressed concern yesterday over what it
described as "extrajudicial executions" carried out by Israel in the
Gaza Strip. The EU presidency expressed its "deep concern on the recent events in
Gaza" and called on Israel to show "ultimate restraint" and avoid
such actions, which it said "can derail any effort to reach a peaceful
solution to the conflict". Greece holds the EU presidency. "In such a critical moment for the region and shortly after the recent
appointment of a Palestinian prime minister, we consider that extrajudicial
executions, which also caused severe casualties among innocent civilians, are
rather unwise and counterproductive," the presidency said.

April 11, 2003 A new fixture of sunny Spanish weekends are massive street rallies where Aznar
is branded a murderer. One Basque politician called him a terrorist -- no
better than the armed separatist group ETA, which tried to kill Aznar with a
car bomb in 1995. Both of Spain's top daily newspapers, El Mundo and El
Pais, vehemently oppose
the war and regularly run front-page photographs of wailing mourners and
mutilated children.
Aznar's approval rating has dropped 10 points in three months, tumbling to 31
percent. Next year's general election, where Anzar's party was once considered
a shoo-in for a third straight term in power, is hardly a sure thing. Aznar doesn't get invited to the
Bush Blair summits anymore. He served his purpose.

April 11, 2003 A top Arab leader has warned that targeting other
Middle East countries after Iraq "would be adding fuel to fire.'' Instead, Arab League Secretary-General Amr Moussa said on Thursday,
the
United States should move quickly to achieve an Israeli-Palestinian peace
settlement once the war in Iraq ends. U.S. criticism of Syria and Iran - both on the President George W. Bush's
list of terrorist nations - has fueled speculation that after the success of the
war against Iraq the United States might attack Damascus and Tehran.

April 11, 2003 The Bush administration made it clearer than ever
Thursday, in sketching its vision for a democratically run Iraq, that it
sees a decidedly secondary role for the United Nations in that country
when the shooting is over.
A three-phase transition process will lead
to eventual self-governance in the postwar period, US Deputy Secretary
of Defense Paul Wolfowitz told lawmakers on Thursday. And
what about those weapons of mass destruction that justified our pre-emptive
invasion of Iraq.

April 10, 2003 The occupied Palestinian territories yesterday witnessed an
incident which raised a question on whether Israel has started to implement its
plan to transfer the Palestinians. This was when an extremist Jewish group
detonated an explosive in a school in a town in Jenin that resulted in wounding
29 students. This operation, to some, recalled the terrorist attacks used to be
carried out by the Zionist gangs and results in al-Nakba ( setback ) of 1948
when the Jews occupied Palestine. So where is
George Bush on Israel's unrelenting killing of Palestinians? Israel, a
nation with real weapons of mass destruction (ie, nuclear bombs).

April 10, 2003 It sure sounds like
Rumsfeld is laying the ground work for an invasion of Syria.

April 10, 2003 The
UN should let the USA and the UK take control of post-war Iraq, because they
must take responsibility for what they have done to the country and not run away
as the USA did in Somalia, Lebanon and Afghanistan. Anglo-American forces
must now take full responsibility
for what they have unleashed. They must restore order and reconstruct this
wretched country. The spoils of war must become the toils of peace.
The spoils of war must now become the toils of peace !

April 10, 2003 Robert Baer, a former senior CIA officer, said,
that
he believed that the Pentagon had ?pretty much decided to go
after Syria?, taking advantage of the presence of American
forces in Iraq. The Syrians are ?easy to get, they?re
vulnerable. There?s been this build-up of rhetoric and, of
course, the Israelis would like us to do it,? he said. Mr Baer, who is visiting Beirut and Damascus, said: ?The
hawks in the Administration have clearly hijacked US foreign
policy. The Pentagon has won over the State Department. How it
will play out, however, remains to be seen.? This
article pretty much sums up the current situation in all the countries in the
Middle East.
The war had been unleashed by the U S and the U K on the pretext of eliminating alleged
Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, but both countries are in possession of
about 60 per cent of the total Weapons of Mass Destruction in the world.

April 9, 2003 Last
week Bush authorized US troops to use teargas in Iraq. Last month
Victoria Clarke, an assistant secretary in Chemical Donald's department, wrote
to the Independent, confirming the decision to use riot control agents in
Iraq, and claiming that their deployment would be legal. Last week the US
Marine Corps told the Asia Times that CS gas and pepper spray had already been
shipped to the Gulf. The government of the US appears to be on the verge of
committing a war crime in Iraq. The deployment of chemicals in Baghdad
could be the event which finally destroys the treaties designed to contain
them, and this, in turn, would be another step towards the demolition of
international law and the inception of a bloody and brutal era, in which might
is unconstrained by universal notions of right. You
cannot use chemical weapons to wage war against chemical weapons. They are, as
the convention makes clear, the instruments of terrorists. By deploying
them, the US government would liquidate one of the remaining moral
distinctions between its own behaviour and that of the man it asks us to
abominate. It is the United States who used
weapons of mass destruction on Iraq and not the reverse. "So
what?", George says. The United States is above International Law.

April 9, 2003 Senior Democratic lawmakers have requested an official review of how US
government contracts to rebuild postwar Iraq were being awarded to a group of US
firms. They also asked for an investigation into allegations that preferential
treatment had been extended to Halliburton Co., once run by Vice President Dick
Cheney. Cheney, who was chief executive of Halliburton from 1995 to 2000, still
received deferred compensation from the group, they said. "These ties between the vice president and Halliburton have raised
concerns about whether the company has received favorable treatment from the
administration," the two lawmakers said. So
the war in Iraq was about increasing the personal wealth of the sociopathic
DICK Cheney?

April 9, 2003 Forty
million Africans are at risk of starving but are not getting enough aid
because the world is distracted by Iraq, the World Food Programme has warned. In
an impassioned appeal to the United Nations security council, James Morris,
the UN agency's executive director, accused the west of double standards.

April 9, 2003 The
United Nations (UN) and the North Atlantic Treat Organization (Nato) are
widely perceived as damaged, if not broken, by their failure to agree on what
to do about Iraq.

Will
these cracks in the international political system now wound the world's
economic architecture, and with it globalization, as well? The
reality is that the real cost of the war in Iraq is going to be viewed by
history as a setback for the global economy. George should have invested
the money he spent on the war in Iraq on developing the economies of the
Palestinians and other stagnant nations. It was the democratic economies
that defeated communism and not guns or bullets. The miseries of the world
population would have been better served with an economic investment in infrastructure
rather than death and destruction in Iraq.

Oakland police fired
wooden dowels, ``sting balls'' and concussion grenades at anti-war protesters
at the Port of Oakland early Monday, apparently the first time such crowd
control weapons have been used on demonstrators in the United States since the
war with Iraq began last month.

April 8, 2003 Thousands of U.S.
soldiers serving in Iraq were in elementary school during the Persian Gulf
war. Now they are college-age. As they endure sandstorms and maneuver on
unpredictable battlefields, their 18-to-21-year-old peers back home on college
campuses follow them via television and the Internet.

April 8, 2003 Right
to express an opinion is the second casualty of war -- U.S.-led conflict in
Iraq is dividing families and friends

April 8, 2003 If anything trumps the
concept that people have the right to control their rulers, it's the idea that
nations have the right to decide their own fate. Lots
of countries shook off colonial rule only to plunge into home-grown autocracy,
poverty, corruption and ethnic conflict - but few if any ever demanded to be
re-colonized. One of the discoveries of recent decades is that many peoples
would rather be ruled badly by one of their own than be governed well by
foreigners. National self-determination, in most places, is more
important than anything else. Americans should have no trouble
understanding that even Iraqis may prefer domestic oppression to imported
liberty. The flag our forebears flew during the
Revolution featured a coiled rattlesnake and a slogan. It didn't say:
"Democracy." It said: "Don't Tread on Me."

April 8, 2003 Lindsay
Nicholson: This is a deeply shameful admission, but I have almost no idea how the war in
Iraq is going. I don't read about it in the newspapers. I channel-hop with the
TV remote to avoid seeing any footage. I can cope with the radio a little. In
the car I switch on for long enough to catch a news bulletin ... Please God, the
war is over ... It's not. I put on some music...It is, I have always believed, an abdication of the responsibilities that go
with being human to be willfully ignorant of what is being done in your name...The number and nature of the visual images and graphic descriptions from this
conflict seems to far exceed any previously seen, yet we arguably know less
rather than more as a result.

April 7, 2003 Can a superpower that has long supported Arab autocrats promote democracy
in the Middle East through military action? The US-led invasion of Iraq has
clouded the debate among Arab pro-democracy activists and, in the short run,
given their rulers fresh reason to clamp down on civil liberties.

April 7, 2003 Shortly after Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld issued a stark warning to
Iran and Syria recently, declaring that any "hostile acts" they
committed on behalf of Iraq might prompt severe consequences, one of President
George W. Bush's closest aides stepped into the Oval Office to warn him that
his unpredictable colleague had just raised the specter of a broader
confrontation. Bush smiled a moment at the latest example of Rumsfeld's brazenness, recalled
the aide. Then he said one word - "Good" - and went back to work.

April 7, 2003 Before landing a job in politics, Rep. Tom
DeLay (R-TX), was in the pest-control business. He made a lot of money and
killed a lot of bugs, too. Now, he is the Majority Leader of the House of
Representatives. Newt Gingerich, a former holder of that post, was his hero.
DeLay,
incredibly, is to the political Right of Newt. He also doesn?t care much
for the First Amendment either, especially that separation of Church and
State clause. Israel, DeLay pontificated, is also committed to ?human rights.? I?m
sure the Palestinian people would consider that claim a very sick joke.
Finally, a question for DeLay: ?Did you think at all about Rachel
Corrie,
age 23, of Olympia, Washington, and how she was deliberately crushed to
death, on March 16, 2003, by an Israeli bulldozer, before you decided to
go public with your ?stand for Israel? pledge??

April 7, 2003 Israel wants more than a dozen changes to a Middle East peace
initiative, and will walk away from negotiations if the amendments are rejected,
an aide to the Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, says. We'll
see if the George can deal with Israel the way he deals with Iraq.

April 7, 2003 As the war in Iraq marches into its third week, the
combined hammering of armored personnel carriers, tanks and
thousand-plus-pound bombs could result in an unintended casualty: several
millennia worth of both documented and undiscovered archaeological
treasures. Just beneath the war's battlefields lies a honeycomb of archaeological
sites that tell a regional history that stretches from prehistoric man of
around 500,000 B.C. through 3500 B.C., when the land of Mesopotamia was
cultivating its status as the cradle of civilization, and beyond. Scholars
estimate that the country has some 500,000 archaeological sites, only
10,000 of which are fully known and cataloged.

April 7, 2003 A preliminary U.N. investigation has
found that at least 966 people were killed in dawn attacks carried out by men,
women and children on more than a dozen villages in northeastern Congo last
week, U.N. officials said Sunday. So where is George
the champion of human rights?

April 6, 2003
Feedback:I would like to know more about
WorldPeace and your mission.

April 6, 2003 There are strong symbolic reasons for the transition
in Iraq to be managed directly
by the United Nations. Such a move would help to reassure Iraqis that the US
meant what it said, that it was liberating them rather than planning to take
over their country. The symbolism would be even more potent if Iraqis themselves
were to play a prominent part in a UN-managed administration. The alternative
symbolism is dire: the "liberators" taking over short- term control.
This appears to be President Bush's favored option.

More important than the symbolism, there are pressing practical reasons for
the UN's direct involvement. The transition is likely to be a long one. Consider
the tasks: policing the inevitable unrest, managing the humanitarian crises that
have arisen, rebuilding parts of Baghdad and, most complex of all, agreeing a
new democratic settlement for Iraq. A US administration in Baghdad is likely to
be viewed with suspicion and wariness at best. Such an administration is also
one that is likely to run out of patience quickly. The evidence from
Afghanistan, where there is ominous unrest, suggests that the US attention span
once a war has been "won" is limited. The policing of Afghanistan,
especially outside Kabul, requires much greater resources, but the interests of
the US have moved on.

April 6, 2003
Afghanistan - A spate of violence, including the murder of a Red Cross
worker, is causing international aid agencies to suspend operations in parts
of Afghanistan and prompting renewed concerns about this war-scarred nation's
chances of returning to health. The people of
Afghanistan are starving and the country is not better off after the United
States got rid of the Taliban. In the wake of America's presence, there is
increasing chaos. So much for the benevolent democracy building of George
W. Bush.

April 6, 2003
Managing the peace in Iraq may become a more daunting task than running the
war. Even as U.S. troops prepared their assault on Baghdad, the need grew more
urgent for coalition leaders and their disgruntled allies at the United
Nations and NATO to consider putting in place an administrative structure to
run Iraq. The disagreements are over process, not over the goal in Iraq. There is a
broad and sensible consensus for what Iraq should look like and what its
government should be. Ideally, after a short period of military occupation and
UN administration, Iraqis would form a type of federal central government with
limited powers over three distinct ethnic cantons or states - a Kurdish state
in the north, a Sunni state in the center, and a Shiite state in the south.

George Bush has established a new American doctrine of pre-emptive action that asserts the United States has the right to attack countries it deems a threat.
While George gives lip service to democracy in America he rejects the
democracy of the United Nations. He therefore endorses an Imperialist
American Doctrine which without a doubt is making many nations (who have
valuable assets) very paranoid.

April 5, 2003 Associated Press
Iraq should be ruled by its own people and American forces
will not invade Syria and Iran after liberating Baghdad, Secretary of
State Colin Powell was quoted as saying in an interview published
Saturday. "Nobody in the American administration (has) talked about
invading Iran or Syria," Powell said. "It seems that there is
a constant desire by everybody to accuse us of invasion operations. That
didn't, and won't, take place."The
truth that the U S did invade Iraq. The truth is that the U S has
undermined the United Nations. So far, the United States
has invaded Iraq in less than three weeks and with less than 100 American casualties and George Bush told us that
Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, which we have not found yet, and that they were a threat to the United States.
I think George Bush has a credibility problem that he is going to have to deal
with when the invasion of Iraq is over and the post war rebuilding begins.

April 5, 2003 Thousands
of Arabs demonstrated around the Middle East yesterday against the US-led war
on Iraq, but protests appeared muted as governments struggled to contain
public anger.Crowds seemed smaller than for protests in the first two weeks of
the Anglo-American invasion to overthrow Iraqi President Saddam Hussein,
partly due to a heavy police presence. "The
striking similarity between what we saw in the past two years in Palestine at
the hands of Israeli soldiers and some images of what the Americans and
British are doing in Iraq makes me shudder," said Nahil Bseiso,
56, a Jordanian housewife of Palestinian origin.

April 5, 2003 The Iraq war is something that can spread worldwide. It could easily
become the modern version of the old crusade. Already, the Iraqis view
their war as a jihad or a holy war against non-Islamic invaders.
All it takes now is to make this the official view of all the Muslim
countries in the world, then, it will be the "coalition of the
willing" against the Islamic world. The most logical international organization that can prevent all this is
the UN. Ambassador Raul Goco, former Philippine Jurist of the United
International Law Commission, came out with a statement to the effect that
the US and British attack on Iraq is so far the greatest tragedy in UN?s
history. It has, Goco said, made the UN inutile. In short, the UN has
become the biggest victim of the Iraq war.
Tony Blair, the Prime Minister, will hold
a two-day "peace summit" with George Bush, the US president, in Northern Ireland
next week in a bid to resolve transatlantic differences over post-conflict Iraq
and push forward the peace process in the province. The two leaders, who
meet on Monday and Tuesday, will also assess the progress of the military
campaign and discuss the imminent publication of a blue-print for the Middle
East peace process.

Mr Blair
will be hoping to extract a firm commitment from Mr Bush about the role of the
UN and an endorsement of British plans for a round-table summit to lay the
foundations for a new Iraqi administration.

So far, Washington has made
clear that the US military would take immediate control of the country following
the fall of Saddam, with the UN performing a secondary, undefined, role. But
there was a slight shift in attitudes yesterday with reports that the Bush
administration was considering including Iraqi officials immediately in areas
under US control.
Blair says no plans to attack Syria, Iran Let us
pray he is right!

LONDON, April 4 (Xinhuanet) -- British
Prime Minister Tony Blair said on Friday that the United States had absolutely
no plans to attack Syria or Iran, two neighboring countries of Iraq.

?
Washington last week accused Syria of allowing shipments of military equipment
to cross the border into Iraq and said it was concerned about the presence
inside Iraq of hundreds of Iraqi Shiite Muslim forces, trained and financed by
the Iranians.

? The warning has sparked concerns that the two countries
might be under the US military attack after the ongoing US-led war on Iraq,
which began on March 20.

? "They have got absolutely no plans to attack
those two countries. What they were saying is that it is important that neither
country assist those forces loyal to (Iraqi President) Saddam (Hussein)," Blair
told the BBC Arabic Service.

? "We are in Iraq for a particular reason, this is not a war against
Iraq, it is a war against Saddam," Blair said.

? "I know of absolutely
no plan to do that," Blair said, responding to questions that if he had enough
influence to curb any US move to attack Syria or Iran.
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Hi John!!

By chance I found you homepage and I was really surprised to
see the first time since weeks an professional man from the USA and
especially TEXAS like you are ,who is such a good man in his hard!!! I think
you are the good picture I had from americans deep hidden in my mind. Why
you're not the president of the USA?? Here in Germany the people felt
nearly betrayed by the American government because all the years
we had to hear how bad we were (espcialy by Hollywood movies and Stuff
like this) and we were pushed to pay money to all the other people in the
world because of the things which happen in the 2. WW. They made a soleless
community out of former proudly men and woman

Everyone was talking about the Americans, the good
one who just want to free Europe and which were only fighting for
human rights and freedom.

But the people never talked about the bad treating of my
Country during the hard years 1918 until 1933. the unfair treatmnent by
the allies after 1918 what made a NAZI regime possible. nobody
talked about the flying jews which were torpedoed by british submarines
because they didn?t want to led such alot of refugees inside their country
before 1939. Nobody is talking about 100.000 of killed innocent victims
( mostly woman and children) in the bombardement of DRESden. Nobody is
talking about that only amount 30 of the Germans voted A.Hitler
1933.

And now what happenning? the big powerfull and rich USA,
which had never a war on their own territory, which never felt the pain
bythemself in their own countryside, towns and villages.They are going away
thousand of miles to kill human beeings and bombing other countries again
without asking : Do you want to be freed by our troops?

Is all what they made the Germans believe a Lie??

I think your country is loosing right now
their hypocritical innocense!!!

I?m really sorry for you living in a country were 75% of the
population are for the war!!! America is right now loosing the good image
they had many years.

So it?s very good to see that there are other people in the
USA which I would describe academic, intelligent, nice and good natured
human beeings.

I visited your country 3 times and I never met such nice
people in the world! Noone treated me with hatred or prejiudices. People
invited me to their home because they showed interests to me and my family
and my home country. I made a lot of good friends and had good impressions
from your beautifull country. So I hope after this war America will become
again such a wunderfull country and not the country I must look at now!!!

Men like you are the hope of this world full of hatred and
ingnorance!!!

JOHN FOR PRESIDENTFeedback:

Glad to see that there 's still someone who 's able to nuance his opinion on the
U.S.'s missions to bring 'peace' to the world. I have two remarks.

1) I talk about the 'US 's false peace missions', not president Bush's. It
would be too easy to
blame the president, or even the oil- and military lobby for unjust wars. It is
the American
people who voted for George W. Bush (and the republican party congress who made
him their candidate) They had an alternative, but 50 % didn't prefer it. I don't
believe' people
are so stupid that they don't know what they are voting for. This sounds very
pessimistical -
I might indeed be a pessimist...

2) It seems a little bit paternalistic to me that America is going around
the world, checking all
the little boys and getting them on the right track for their own good. Is America the ultimate reference? Are American people really known for their
great
tolerance towards other cultures? How long did it take for instance before
slavery was
abolished, isn't there still now discrimination of black people by the police,
the court,... Let 's
not talk about the social security system, the segregating school system. You
have renown
shootings at schools, and teenagers who are boaring themselves to hell; lots of
depressions,
burnouts (people who are mentally too tired to function well), divorces, people
who have
great pains at finding a direction in their life, obesitas and anorexia,
computer game addicts. It wouldn't be fair to say that all these are just a couple of singled out
individuals whose
lives turned bad by incident. There ?re some problems for people to give
genuine meaning
to their lives, and conduct their lives. I 'm not intending to say that Europe
(where I live) is
free from all these problems mentioned above. In Belgium, there is a rising
racism, lots of
people have become empty minds who only cover their emptyness with a thin layer
of
(false) meaning, and so on.

What I do intend to say is that the West has its own crises to solve (I think
they are meanly
crises of meaning-giving) and that we should in a way learn to be
self-sufficient, so that we
don't need to go hang around in the world to bring 'peace' and 'wealth' (both in
reality
often ironical terms) to other people around the world, to make ourselves feel
'the good
guys'.

I am aware that my words might seem to be an attack to you, and your family, who
are all in
some way linked to the U.S. military, as I understood from the pictures. Perhaps
I too should
now nuance my opinion. I don't really know if a country can go on a mission
abroad to bring
its version of 'good life' to other countries. I guess this might be
justifiable, as long as the
country is aware that what is good might differ for different people, and that
it doesn't act
alone in its war. But in each case, I keep stating peace should primarily be
worked on at home. Otherwise, the US would be hypocrit.

Keep bringing out the peace message, at home and abroad!

Courage,

Raf Van der V

April 3, 2003 The Americans are advancing on Baghdad but their gains may be a sign
the Iraqis are pulling back to reinforce the capital for a "mother of all
urban warfare" showdowns, analysts said on Thursday. The Iraqis know their "ultimate defence is the urban area," where
the technological advantage of US and British troops is diminished and where
growing civilian casualties would cause the allies political problems in
continuing their offensive. The battle for Baghdad "could be the largest example of urban combat
seen since Grozny", referring to the Russian army's storming of the Chechen
capital. He said the Russian option, namely leveling a city or large parts of it to
rubble, was not something the coalition could afford politically to do and that
in any case "it didn't solve things for the Russians. They still took heavy
casualties".

April 3, 2003 Iraq redoubled its defiance of the American forces closing in on
Baghdad
yesterday, with fresh predictions of victory from Saddam Hussein and shows of
strength from imported Arab fighters.

Although American forces claim to have destroyed sections of
the Republican Guard, on the streets of the city yesterday there were few signs
of flight, or fear. "Let them go and liberate the
Palestinians. We are not afraid of them," said Shalal Farhan, who lives on
the outskirts of town.The warheads in Washington seem to be talking more and
more about the bloody fighting that is coming when the Americans try to take
Baghdad. George and his warring cabinet were wrong. The Iraqis
prefer Saddam to George. In fact, Iraqis are coming home to fight the
Americans and Muslim "freedom fighters" are streaming into Iraq from
Syria and Iran. In time, if Saddam can survive, there may be a flood of
Muslims into Iraq. There is nothing that the Arabs would like more than to
beat the Americans. The only question is how many dead American soldiers
will it take before George has to leave Iraq? If we take Baghdad without
too many dead soldiers, then it sets a precedent for future acts of
aggression. If we find that a modern city cannot be taken by force without
killing tens of thousands of civilians, then maybe the folly of war will be
exposed and WorldPeace will be given a chance. WorldPeace.

April 3, 2003 There is nothing encouraging about the list of bloody, high-casualty urban
entanglements that strategists on both sides of the Atlantic have been
scrutinising for lessons they might apply if drawn into a street-by-street fight
for the Iraqi capital. From Stalingrad, Manila and Seoul to Beirut, Grozny and
Mogadishu, the history of what the US marines call Mout - military operations on
urbanised terrain, known to the British as Fibua, for fighting in built-up areas
- is one of massive civilian and military casualties with incendiary effects on
public opinion back home.

The Pentagon's gravest nightmare in Baghdad would be what is coming to be
known as a "mega-Mogadishu", hundreds of times worse than in 1993,
when rebel fighters triumphantly dragged the corpses of American servicemen
through the Somali capital, prompting a humiliating US withdrawal. Its own bible
on the topic, the 150-page doctrine for joint urban operations, published in
September, reminds readers of the bloody, drawn-out battle for the central
Vietnamese city of Hue in 1968 which resulted, after four weeks, in the US
seizing control of just seven city blocks. And there are troubling reminders of
conflicts in Beirut and Lebanon, where battling forces sometimes fought
room-by-room for control of individual hotels and apartment blocks. "Nearly all operations in urban areas _ take significantly longer than
expected," the doctrine warns. In training exercises in the swamps of
Louisiana, where the marines have built a mock city to practise urban combat,
soldiers playing the enemy routinely "kill" or "injure" 60%
of the invading force.

April 3, 2003 British troops on the outskirts of Basra were yesterday
distributing leaflets in an attempt to reassure local people that their
intentions were benign. "This time we won't abandon you," the sheets
said, in a reference to 1991 when the Shias were encouraged by the US and
Britain to rise up against Saddam Hussein only to be let down as their revolt
was brutally quashed. One of the biggest problems
the U S has in Iraq is the undeniable fact that we do not keep our promises to
the people. Many Iraqis were murdered after they trusted the U S ten
years ago to support their uprising. But
Daddy George betrayed their trust.

April 3, 2003 Britain distanced itself from US sabre rattling yesterday, insisting it would
have "nothing to do" with threats from Washington against Iran and
Syria and announcing a relaxation of export controls on dual-use civilian and
military equipment for Iran. Jack Straw, the foreign secretary, defended Tehran and
Damascus after warnings from the US to both regimes."Iran is a completely different country and situation
from Iraq," Mr Straw told BBC Radio 4's Today programme. "Iran is an
emerging democracy and there would be no case whatsoever for taking any kind of
action. Mr Straw is meeting the US secretary of state, Colin Powell,
along with other EU and NATO foreign ministers in Brussels today amid signs of
sharp divergences between London and Washington over wider Middle East and
post-war issues.
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Peace and Good Tidings!

You have a wonderful website. It is very
inspiring and will undoubtedly stimulate many to promote Peace. It is very
heartening to know that there are Peace makers like yourself on the Internet.
The Bible does say that 'Blessed are the Peace-makers, for they shall be
called the children of God". This is a message that the churches
fail to convey and it is something that we must promote for the world's
benefit.

I have always used the Bible to promote Peace.
I point out that the way to achieve national Peace is reported in Psalm
81:13-15 =

"If my people would but listen to me,

if Israel would follow my ways,

how quickly would I subdue their enemies

and turn my hands against their foes!

Those who hate the Lord would cringe before
him,
and their punishment would last forever."

See also Psalm 27; I Samuel 8:20; Deut
28:7; Isaiah 41:12. The promise of Divine protection is repeated in the
New Testament in Luke 1:69-75. This proves that combat is not necessary
in order to win a war. Churches fail to teach this but it is binding on
all Christians.

Please include references to these notes in
your website as they will further enlighten the public.

Thanx!

Starr

April 2, 2003 More than a year after the Taliban
were evicted from Kabul, thousands of
Afghan refugees living in camps in Pakistan are reluctant to return to
their homes, fearing ethnic hostilities, a post-Iraq backlash and
unemployment. The truth is that the U S got
rid of the Taliban in Afghanistan and disrupted Osama bin-Laden's terrorist
network but we left a mess which George feels no obligation to fix.
There will be no massive rebuilding programs in Afghanistan because there is
no oil to pay for it.

April 2, 2003 Never mind the enormous US advantage of satellite-guided
missiles and smart bombs, the overpowering command of Iraqi skies. The battle in
Iraq is becoming a shooting war on the ground, a bloody grind of street fights,
ambushes and unpleasant surprises. As American forces near the gates of Baghdad,
the war is complicated by the fact that thousands of the troops slated for
fighting are still on ships, weeks away.Feedback:

By linking to your web site I feel a high degree of vindication
for my own position: you are
beyond reproach in your dedication to your family, your country, and your fellow
human
beings on planet Earth. And, I genuinely like your artworks and appreciate
your boldness,
dedication, and skills in putting together such a remarkable web site - an
expression of
true human heart and human spirit. I tip my hat to you sir, and join you in your prayer for WorldPeace.
Tim C

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Dear John: You are one thoroughly confused
person. PEACE be with you, Richard P

********

Once again, you are a disgrace to this country and
the human race, why don't you do us all a favor and go to Iraq to become a
human shield, if you hurry you will get there for the massive onslaught ass
whipping we are going to put on display. No name

April 2, 2003 In spite of being mostly knocked offline, the website of Arab satellite news
network al-Jazeera was among the most sought-after on the internet last week.
The web portal Lycos reported that al-Jazeera and variant spellings became
its top search term last week, with three times more searches than
"sex." Al-Jazeera drew intense interest from web surfers after it carried Iraqi TV
footage of dead and captive US soldiers in Iraq. US television networks had
decided not to air footage of the corpses. Al-Jazeera later honored a US
request to stop until families could be notified, a statement from the network
said. Hackers calling themselves the Freedom Cyber Force Militia later diverted
visitors to the English site to a page with a US flag. The
U S corporate controlled press cannot sanitize the world news when each day
brings internet exposure to the foreign press. One of the real hopes of
WorldPeace is freedom of access to the world news.

April 2, 2003 On Tuesday, the Supreme Court will confront a fact that
you won't find prominently mentioned in any high school civics book: Americans
of Asian descent face racial discrimination when they apply to almost any
selective university in the country. So do most whites. Asians and whites who
wish to avoid being penalized for their color can apply to public universities
in a handful of states that have banned or curtailed overt racial preferences.
(The states are California, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas, and
Washington.) Or they can choose a nonselective university. Or they can skip
college. Or they can go abroad. Or else?tough. But
the real problem is that racial prejudice is alive and well in the United
States. There are no Hispanic or Black governors of the fifty states
and there are no Black or Hispanic United States senators. America
is racial and it further manifests in the war in Iraq.

April 1, 2003 The US-led military coalition is losing the public
relations war in Iraq
although it may be regaining the military advantage, an Australian
military expert warned.

April 1, 2003 War on Iraq will create "100 Bin Ladens", the Egyptian president,
Hosni Mubarak, warned yesterday as hundreds of Arab volunteers streamed to
Baghdad pledging "martyrdom operations" against US and British forces.

March 31, 2003 In the Jordanian capital of Amman, a traditional jumping-off point for entry
into Iraq, Iraqi citizens thronged their embassy this week demanding documents
to return home. Embassy officials say they have issued 3,100 visas since the
beginning of the war to Iraqis who wanted to return. "I am going back to defend the Iraqi people; to defend the old women of
Iraq; the old men of Iraq; the land of Iraq," said the 33-year-old Shiite.
"Do you allow someone to enter your home and force you out of it? They have
put up the American flag in Umm Qasr; this is not liberation, this is
occupation." The backlash over the U.S. invasion of Iraq, he said, will do more to foment
Islamic fundamentalism and anti-American violence than anything Osama bin Laden
could do, he said. American policy is seen in this part of the world as arrogant, hypocritical
and overly influenced by Israel to the detriment of the Palestinians. Because the Bush administration has failed, in the Arab view, to condemn
Israeli abuses of Palestinians, it has no moral authority to condemn the abuses
of another nation, even one as egregious as Saddam's Iraq.

March 31, 2003 Since Mogadishu, the U.S.
has significantly improved its urban-combat readiness, training soldiers how
to fight in claustrophobic environments in which 90% of the targets are less
than 50 yards away. But nothing can prepare young soldiers for the relentless
hell of the real thing. Urban engagements historically
result in 30% casualty rates on both sides; while the U.S. believes it
can cut its losses to 10% of its total urban fighting force, that would send
U.S. casualty figures into the thousands. * U.S. military-intelligence
officials believe the Iraqi command circulated copies of
the movie Black Hawk Down before the war, as a manual for defeating the
Americans. The film tells the story of the 18 U.S. Army Rangers who
were killed by Somalis while attempting to rescue comrades from two
helicopters downed in Mogadishu in 1993. The casualties prompted the U.S. to
wind up its military operation in Somalia.

March 31, 2003 Militant
Palestinian Group Claims Suicide Bombers Sent to IraqEdward
YeranianBeirut - The militant Palestinian group Islamic Jihad said a group of its suicide
bombers has arrived in Iraq to help fight U.S. and British forces. The United
States has said the group is a terrorist organization. Islamic Jihad made the claim in a statement faxed to news agencies. The
group's leader, Ramadan Abdallah Challah, told al-Jazeera television that
Islamic Jihad would help Iraq defeat the United States and Britain. He said it
is one conflict from Baghdad to the West Bank. On Saturday, an Iraqi suicide bomber killed four U.S. soldiers in central
Iraq. The Iraqi government praised the attack, and threatened more. The senior coalition military commander called the attack 'terrorism' and
said the Iraqi government's praise for the attack was 'remarkable.' He said
coalition troops will be more careful when dealing with Iraqi civilians.
The bottom line is that Iraq is the desert version of
Vietnam, the terrorist have established a wedge of distrust between the
Americans and the Iraqi civilians.

March 31, 2003 The United States
vehemently insisted today that there would be no pause or reassessment of the
war in Iraq, despite complaints from officers in the field who say they are
facing resistance of a sort they did not expect, and a suicide bombing on
Saturday that indicated a significant change in tactics by the Iraqis.
"We have no plans for pauses, cease-fires or anything else," said
Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld. And Gen. Richard B. Myers, chairman of
the Joint Chiefs of Staff, added, "Nobody ever promised a short
war." In fact, several senior members of the Bush administration
did expect a short war last year during the internal debate over whether to
attack Iraq. This is typical double speak.
Richard Perle has already resigned because he saw the writing on the
wall. America is stuck in the mother of all tar babies.

March 30, 2003 On the eve of the 1991 Gulf
War Iraqi President Saddam Hussein told the U.S. charge d'affaires in
Baghdad, Joseph Wilson: "Yours is a society that can't take 10,000
casualties." Saddam lost the war. But he was right, and as he faces off with
the United States again he is making the same calculation. "The 1991 Gulf War created unrealistic expectations for low
casualties in warfare, not only among the public but also among the
military establishment," Michael Gordon and General Bernard E.
Trainor wrote in "The Generals' War".

Feedback:
Friend of peace

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?I am a layman, average Joe, gets
up, goes to work in factory. I am a Pagan in my beliefs rather I believe in the things that most
cannot see. Our wonderful president Mr Bush has been blinded by some of his
cabinet members into taking us down a very dangerous path. I have read much on
the views of mr Wolfowitz and honestly they scare me. These are not the views of
many of his jewish counterparts but of a handful.

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?Zionism, in my opinion would be like the United
States giving the catholics New mexico because the virgin mary was seen there.
This notion of our forfathers of giving land to the jews after WWII is
perposterous at best. Removing all of the people who lived in this land for
generations ignited the flames of war many years ago.

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?One also has to remember that the middle east is
the birthplace of the 3 major religions of the world today, all of which believe
in THE SAME GOD, one god above all others. They all worship the old testement as
one of their basic text.

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?I am not one for tyrany or the rights of dictators
to brutally rule over their people but we also have to remember who help make
Mr. Hussain what he is today. Our fine American Government!!!! Yes folks Mr
Rumsfeld and many of Mr.Bushes cabinet were responible for Iraqs current
leadership and the so called weapons of mass destruction of which we americans
hold the lead in not only having but producing.

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?I was born and raised an
American. I would stand up
for our rights or a war over an oppresive dictator that has been proven to stand
against world peace. The problem I am faced with is that the so called dictator
stands in my land and calls the shots.

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?Let us stop the madness of Dubya before it is too
late. I do not believe for one minute that the destiny of the human race is set
in stone. The prophesies may talk of the end times being set in motion,
But we are
a species of free will, the only such that walks the earth.

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March 30, 2003 President Assad said he had warned Arab leaders at an Arab league
meeting in Cairo that several Arab countries could be next. "When I mention a number of Arab states, it is not logical to
exclude Syria, which is the closest [to Iraq] and which has always been
at the heart of the struggle against the invaders." Mr Assad said there would be tough resistance against US troops in
Iraq.
"The United States may be able to occupy Iraq but it won't be able
to control it," he said. On Friday, Mr Rumsfeld said the US had information that military
equipment, including night vision goggles, had passed through Syria to
Iraq. "We consider such trafficking as hostile acts and will hold the
Syrian government accountable for such shipments," Mr Rumsfeld
said. Bush may well plan to take the whole
region.

March 30, 2003 Blasted by Washington and London
for beaming distressing pictures from Iraq, al-Jazeera television
says it will not censor the horrors of war. "I think the audience has the right to see all
aspects of the battle," said Jihad Ballout, spokesman for the
Qatar-based Jazeera, seen by many as being a major influence in
shaping Arab opinion over the U.S.-led war. Bush
does not want people to see that what is really going on in Iraq is
murder. We are murdering people because that is what war is always
about. Murder.

March 30, 2003 Campaigners are taking to the streets across the world
once again to protest against the Iraq war, amid mounting public fears the
US-British forces could become embroiled in a bloody and prolonged conflict.
Particularly strong turnouts were awaited in Britain and
Spain, whose governments have offered unwavering support to Washington
throughout the Iraqi crisis.Feedback: Dear John,

I just visited your Web site and I feel it my duty to write to
you to saythank you. Thank you for speaking out loudly and clearly
against the injustice andhorror of this war and the arrogance and cynicism
of the current USgovernment. Thank you for your courage and integrity in
facing allegationsof unpatriotism from some of your fellow countrymen, while
showing what realpatriotism is all about. Thank you because, like may other
Americans today,you are making it possible for me to still believe the US
are a nation ofgreat people, people who have taught a lot to the world and
who still canteach a lot. Thank you for making it possible for me to still
love America,its true ideals of freedom and justice, and to still have hope
for thefuture of mankind.

Thank you.

Alessandra MtranslatorRome, Italy, Europe, the World

March 29, 2003 Relying on harassing tactics never exhibited during the 1991 Gulf
War, the Iraqi military has inflicted heavy damage this week on two of the US
Army's most fiercesome weapons , the Abrams tank and the Apache Longbow
helicopter gunship.

March 29, 2003 The UN Security Council unanimously approved a resolution
today to restart a UN humanitarian food program for Iraq once the US-led war
winds down. The resolution gives Secretary-General Kofi Annan control for the
next 45 days over the humanitarian side of the UN program that uses Iraq's oil
revenues for medical supplies and food.

March 29, 2003 Militias fighting in Iraqi towns, guerrillas attacking U.S. military convoys, the Republican Guard moving south to greet approaching coalition forces.
Saddam Hussein's war strategy may look chaotic from the outside, but military experts believe it's a carefully crafted plan meant to drag out the fighting and prolong a humanitarian crisis that would prompt the international community to push for a political solution.

March 29, 2003 A Bush administration program to add at least three bioweapons labs is troubling many scientists and arms control
experts, who say it can't be good to train more microbiologists in the black art of bioterror.
Bush accused Saddam of having weapons of mass destruction and yet it is
America who is using them. Bush accuses Saddam of having chemical and
biological weapons and yet he sets up new bioterror labs. And Bush sees
no hypocrisy in his position.

March 29, 2003 Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld warned Syria on Friday to stop sending military equipment to Iraqi
forces, a charge that Mideast nation called ''absolutely unfounded.''
Syrian President Bashar Assad has described the military action against Iraq as ''clear occupation and a flagrant aggression against a United Nations member state.''
Turkey is on the verge of entering Iraq. Syria is supplying arms to
Iraq. The whole region is about to erupt in war.

March 29, 2003 Richard Perle?s resignation Thursday as chairman of the Defense Policy
Board, a Pentagon advisory group, is long overdue. Perle quit the
chairmanship amid controversy centered around his position as a retainer
for bankrupt telecommunications firm Global
Crossing which hired him to the potential tune of US$725,000 to win
approval from the US Department of Defense for Hong Kong billionaire Li
Ka-shing to buy the company. A growing chorus of critics and lawmakers
decried Perle, nicknamed Prince of Darkness, as putting himself in a
situation with a significant conflict of interest.

March 28, 2003 Statements from
Iraqi prisoners of war and electronic eavesdropping on Iraqi government
communications indicate that Saddam Hussein has moved chemical weapons to
the Medina Division, one of three Republican Guard divisions guarding the
approaches to Baghdad, Army officials said. It
may be that within a few days the American dead could increase by the
thousands. Then what?

March 28, 2003 British Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon claims British forces
have found undeniable evidence that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein has made
preparations to use chemical and biological weapons against advancing allied
troops.

March 28, 2003 Police arrested 215 anti-war demonstrators today, including
150 people who staged a "die-in" by laying down in the middle of New
York's 5th Avenue during the morning rush hour. About 400 anti-war activists
converged near Rockerfeller Centre in midtown Manhattan, many of them lying on
their backs near the intersection of 49th Street and 5th Avenue and others
holding signs and chanting "No War, No Oil, No
Profit".

March 28, 2003 Israel has dismissed a suggestion by Jack Straw
that Western powers are guilty of double standards for insisting Iraq
implement UN resolutions, but not forcing Israel to do the same.

The Foreign Secretary's remarks came as the US and Britain are considering
the fate of an international peace plan that envisions Palestinian statehood by
2005. Tony Blair has said the road map should be introduced once
Palestinian Prime Minister-designate Mahmoud Abbas has formed and won approval
for a new Cabinet - a step expected by next month.

March 28, 2003
The numbers of US servicemen killed, wounded and missing on
the Iraqi battlefield are mounting steadily, and military experts warn that
Americans may soon be confronting military carnage they have not seen since the
end of the Vietnam war.

Dear Mr. John WorldPeace

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to write a speech with the topic is The important of Worldpeace, my speech
only can be 50 second, I'm still have a hard time tounderstand the meaning
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one their thought is only about this war we have withiraq.? Is their any
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SincerilyCrystal

"The Importance of WorldPeace"

The question to be
asked is "How can we manifest peace on earth if we do not include everyone (all
nations, all religions, all races, both women and men) in our vision of
peace?"

A Christian peace cannot bring WorldPeace because it does not
include Buddhist, Hindus, Muslims or Jews.

A White peace cannot bring
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Yellow.

A? male peace cannot bring WorldPeace because it does not include
females.

And an American peace cannot bring WorldPeace because it is not
tolerant and respectful of the other nations of the world.

A United
Nations peace is the only hope for WorldPeace.

And lastly, WorldPeace is
one word.? Until WorldPeace is written as one word, it will remain two
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March 27, 2003 As bombs blasted Baghdad last week, dozens of cell phones in
China buzzed with messages about where to stage an anti-war protest. In Cairo,
activists tapped out text messages to summon 5,000 demonstrators to a central
square. And in San Francisco, technophiles beamed live footage from protests to
anti-war Web. Such tactics enabled the activists to shut down much of downtown San
Francisco - proof that new technologies have revolutionized civil disobedience,
said Pam Fielding, co-author of "The Net Effect: How Cyberadvocacy is
Changing the Political Landscape.''

March 26, 2003 For the first time since the U.S.-led war against Iraq began last
week, the divided U.N. Security Council called an open meeting where any
of the 191 U.N. member states can express their views on the military
campaign to oust Saddam Hussein.

March 26, 2003 The lack of water in
Basra is on the verge of spreading disease and misery among the two million
civilian. So much for Mad George's humanitarian aid and saving the Iraqi
people from the evils of Saddam. Those civilians who are revolting in
Basra are being killed by Iraqi soldiers there. After the Gulf War we
allowed thousands to be exterminated after we promised to support an
uprising. No doubt for the civilians of Basra Bush is a worse fate than
Saddam. At least Saddam was selective in his murder.

March 26, 2003 School children have battled police in central
Sydney in a passionate protest against the war on Iraq, hurling bottles, plastic
chairs, fireworks and paint-filled eggs. Rattling tambourines and beating drums, the children, many in school
uniform, then ran screaming through the city centre chanting "No War - No
War" and carrying banners like: "We are ready to fight, world peace is
our right".

March 26, 2003 No more Coca-Cola or Budweiser, no Marlboro,
no American whiskey or even American Express cards -- a growing number of
restaurants in Germany are taking everything American off their menus to
protest the Iraq war. Although the protests are mainly symbolic, waiters in dozens of
bars and restaurants in Hamburg, Berlin, Munich, Bonn and other German
cities are telling patrons, "Sorry, Coca-Cola is not available any
more due to the current political situation."

March 25, 2003 The
Bush dilemma is if he supplies the civilians in Basra, he supports the army
there. If he starves the people, he must face the world. Just a
small problem among growing global problems Bush has created. Basra, an industrial city of 1.2 million, "may be facing a
humanitarian disaster. A city that size cannot afford to go
without water for long," United Nations Secretary-General
Kofi Annan said yesterday as British troops withdrew from
approaches to the city under unexpectedly heavy fire. The main water-treatment plant on the northern fringe of the
city was knocked out when electric power was cut on Friday,
leaving 60 per cent of Basra's population without any water, the
International Committee for the Red Cross reported.

March 25, 2003 Bush
is not only about to send the world into world war but he is also destroying
the world economy. Warwick McKibbin said the war was amplifying uncertainty that
had been dampening confidence for
months. In the worst case, he said, it could reduce world growth
by 0.75 percentage points a year for
three years. "This war shock -- particularly the oil shocks and the
shocks to global equity markets and the
wealth effects from that -- have put this negative impulse into
the world economy for a number of
years," McKibbin told Reuters in Sydney on Tuesday.

March 25, 2003 Five
POWs are mistreated in Iraq and the US cries foul. What about Guantanamo
Bay? Rumsfeld had better watch his back. For this
enthusiastic convert to the cause of legal warfare is, as head of the defence
department, responsible for a series of crimes sufficient, were he ever to be
tried, to put him away for the rest of his natural life. His prison camp in Guantanamo Bay, in Cuba, where 641 men
(nine of whom are British citizens) are held, breaches no fewer than 15 articles
of the third convention. The US government broke the first of these (article 13)
as soon as the prisoners arrived, by displaying them, just as the Iraqis have
done, on television. In this case, however, they were not encouraged to address
the cameras. They were kneeling on the ground, hands tied behind their backs,
wearing blacked-out goggles and earphones. In breach of article 18, they had
been stripped of their own clothes and deprived of their possessions. They were
then interned in a penitentiary (against article 22), where they were denied
proper mess facilities (26), canteens (28), religious premises (34),
opportunities for physical exercise (38), access to the text of the convention
(41), freedom to write to their families (70 and 71) and parcels of food and
books (72). They were not "released and repatriated without delay
after the cessation of active hostilities" (118), because, the US
authorities say, their interrogation might, one day, reveal interesting
information about al-Qaida. Article 17 rules that captives are obliged to give
only their name, rank, number and date of birth.

March 25, 2003 The
Turks are about to enter Iraq and the Arabs are beginning to back Iraq.
If the war is not quickly won, it will spread like cancer. Arab foreign ministers last night
condemned the "aggression" against Iraq and called for the
"immediate withdrawal" of US and British forces from the
country, at the end of a meeting in Egypt's capital. A final resolution issued after the meeting "condemns the
US-British aggression against Iraq" and called for "the
immediate and unconditional withdrawal of the invasion forces."
It also calls on "all Arab states to abstain from participating in
any military action damaging to the unity and territorial integrity of
Iraq or any other Arab country". The secretary general of the 22-member Arab League, Amr Moussa, said the
resolution was adopted unanimously, except for Kuwait which expressed
reservations.

March 25, 2003 Law - what is it good
for? Britain and America faced legal challenges over
their part in the conflict in Kosovo, writes Robert Verkaik. Will they find
themselves back in the courts over Iraq?

March 24, 2003 Saddam's death has
been greatly exaggerated. Reminds us of the death of Osama
bin-Laden. A life spent avoiding would-be assassins, a prison escape dressed up as a woman,
temporary exile and a long battle to win over total power present a picture of a
redoubtable foe. His survival instincts have become infamous. The war would be "long and with heavy consequences" for coalition
forces, he warned. "Hit your enemy with force and precision," Saddam
told the troops. "Cut their throats. The enemy is stuck in Iraqi territory.
Hit it. Victory is near," he assured.

Annan should do the right thing...

Instead of voicing his disapproval of the US invasion of Iraq,
Kofi Annan should tender his resignation as secretary-general of the UN.

In so doing, he will set a precedent for future secretaries-general in the event
that the UN charter is violated by any permanent member of the Security Council.
If he remains in power, he will not be able to look anybody in the eye.

Monson Marukatat

... And whole UN needs overhaul...

The problem with the UN is not that the Security Council failed to reach a
consensus on the lines advocated by the Potomac Hegemon. Rather, it is that the
secretary-general of the United Nations did not, immediately upon the
American-led aggression starting in Iraq, use his power under article 99 of the
UN charter to draw the attention of the Security Council to that assault against
international peace and security.

Above all, it is that, as of this writing, the UN General Assembly has yet to
convene in emergency session to consider the matter. What do member states think
emergency sessions are for? Two proofs of an appalling lack of spine.

The UN, its charter, its Security Council, its General Assembly and its
secretary-generalship are in dire need of overhauling. For a start, I would
suggest that all UN political offices, in particular the secretary-general's, be
permanently moved away from New York to some congenial place, such as Geneva or
Bonn, less subject to undue pressure.

Emilia von Katz
Chiang Mai

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US protests in the country, thousands of Afghans yesterday
took to the streets of eastern Afghanistan chanting slogans and demanding a halt
to attacks on Iraq, officials said. More than 10,000 people swarmed through
Laghman provincial capital Mehtarlam shouting ?Allahu-Akbar? (God is Great),
torching the flags of the United States, Britain and other coalition members.
(Getty Images)...

March 24, 2003 Now
things are getting real. The fiercest fighting yet in the battle for Iraq flared Sunday near this city
on the Euphrates River. Firefights went on for hours, and dozens of Americans
were killed, wounded or taken prisoner.

March 24, 2003 U.S. troops hunting in Iraq for banned chemical and biological
weapons and Scud missiles have so far come up empty, the Pentagon says.
What is going to happen if no weapons of mass destruction are used by Iraq and
none are found?

March 24, 2003 Russia delivered a statement of protest to the U.S. Embassy
on Saturday, accusing Washington of tactics associated with the Cold War after a
U.S. spy plane flew near Russia's border with neighboring Georgia. Two Russian fighters were scrambled to track the U-2 spy plane as it flew 12
to 19 miles from the Russian border Saturday, the Defense Ministry said,
according to Russian news agencies. Hopefully Mad George will not be so stupid as to draw Russia into the Iraq quagmire.

The juxtaposition of American war:
wanting peace, supporting war.

Pope John Paul II yesterday denounced the war against Iraq as
threatening the ''fate of humanity'' in his first public comments on the US-led
attacks. ''When war, as in these days in Iraq, threatens the fate of humanity,
it is ever more urgent to proclaim, with a strong and decisive voice, that only
peace is the road to follow to construct a more just and united society,'' John
Paul said. ''Violence and arms can never resolve the problems of men.'' The
pontiff said that peace is ''a gift of God and a humble and constant achievement
by men.'' He made his remarks yesterday in an address at the Vatican to members
of an Italian religious television channel, Telepace. (AP)

March 23, 2003 Anti-war activists marched again Saturday in dozens of
cities, marshaling well over 100,000 in Manhattan and sometimes trading insults
with backers of the U.S.-led war on Iraq. War backers rallied too, often by the
thousands, with American flags and chants of "USA!"

March 23, 2003 The US-led war in Iraq could spread
to Turkey if Ankara deploys troops inside
Kurdish-held northern Iraq, a top Russian
official warned yesterday. "The fire of war could spread to Turkish
territory," said Dmitry Rogozin, head of
the foreign affairs committee in the lower house
of parliament, or State Duma. "This war resembles a Russian doll, with
one doll inside another. One war started and
another is building inside," Interfax news
agency quoted Rogozin as saying.

March 23, 2003 Tens of thousands of anti-war demonstrators have marched through London. Many
said they felt motivated to express their views even though the fighting has
already begun in Iraq. The protesters included the old and the young, Christians and Muslims and
political activists from all the major parties. What unified them was their belief that the war against Iraq is unjustified, and
that they doubt the true motives of President Bush and British Prime Minister
Tony Blair. One of the march stewards, Roy Evans of London, said he doubts Iraqi
President Saddam Hussein is hiding weapons of mass destruction. "The only
weapons of mass destruction I see at the moment were on TV in Baghdad last
night," he said. "It seems like that was doing some pretty massive
destruction."

March 23, 2003 Australia's John
Howard's future is on the line. Across Australia, tens of thousands of demonstrators poured into the streets
to vent their fury that bombs had fallen on Baghdad and Australian forces were
involved. "For the first time in the history of this country, Australia has joined
as an aggressor in war," said Labor Leader Simon Crean.

March 22, 2003 Russia vowed on Saturday to block any future moves by the
United States and its allies to secure U.N. approval for the military action in
Iraq and the post-war power structures they might set up there.

March 22, 2003 Worldwide protest against the US-led war on
Iraq shows no sign of abating with many demonstrations planned for
today. Anti-war protesters in Asia have burned American flags and held up
photographs of Iraqi children wounded in the 1991 Gulf War as images of
wounded Iraqi civilians fueled anger against the US-led attack in Iraq.

Thousands of Muslims staged peaceful demonstrations on Saturday against the US-led war on
Iraq as protests gathered steam in the world's most populous Muslim country.
Some
3,000 protesters picketed the US Embassy in Jakarta, branding US President
George W Bush and allies British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Australian Prime
Minister John Howard "terrorists" and "war criminals". The protesters, many of them women, carried a coffin to symbolize the death
of the United Nations, which failed to prevent war on Iraq.

March 22, 2003 Public approval of President Bush has surged after the start
of the war with Iraq, but not to the levels of support his father enjoyed during
the Persian Gulf War a dozen years ago, polls suggest.

March 22, 2003 Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul, however, insisted Turkey was determined to
send in a large force. Ankara fears the U.S.-led war could lead to Iraq's fragmentation, prompting
Iraqi Kurds to declare independence. It wants to impose a presence in the north
to prevent that step, which could encourage Turkey's Kurdish separatists.

March 22, 2003 North Korea is preparing for possible war with the United States and is
concerned about Washington's intentions after its attack on Iraq, said a U.N.
envoy who returned Saturday from the North. And even though it is not reported in the news, who can doubt that George is looking at Iran, another old enemy of the United States?

March 21, 2003 The aim
of the United States is to topple a number of the regimes in the region and change the
policies and attitudes of some of the others. This campaign is being made
possible both by the enormous clout of the US on the international stage and the
debilitating cancer that is spreading through the Arab world. The main goals of this policy are to boost US influence in the Middle East and
to change the regimes in the region. The aim of this change is not to bring them
into the US orbit ? because they are already there. Rather the goal is to
change their nature, structure, laws, and political, economic and social
cultures to make them conform to the demands of the neo-conservatives in the US
administration. These conditions, attractive at first sight, will demand living with Israel in
line with the conditions of the Zionist right-wing. They will be ? or even more
importantly they will be seen to be ? imposed from the outside, in coordination
with a hard-line Israeli agenda.

March 21, 2003 Anti-war
demonstrators staged huge marches across the world yesterday, often
clashing with police as they converged on heavily guarded U.S. embassies.
Violence erupted at protests in Egypt, Spain, India, Belgium, Switzerland
and Lebanon as police used water cannon or batons to disperse thousands of
protesters. It is not good when anti-war protesters do
not practice non-violence.

Added
10-year-old Jonah: ``If we spent all the billions of dollars we're spending on
the war on other sources of power - solar power, wind power - we wouldn't need
any of this oil.''

March 21, 2003 Russian President Vladimir Putin demanded on Thursday that
the United States quickly end its attack on Iraq and said the use of
military force against Saddam Hussein was not justified. "Russia demands the swiftest end to military action," Putin
said at the start of a meeting with top officials. "The military
action against Iraq is a big political mistake." Who
knows, we may have more to fear from a democratic Russia asserting itself in
the Middle East that we ever had to fear from a communist Russia.

March 21, 2003
The Pope has been a staunch opponent of a war in Iraq, saying there was
no moral or legal justification and that it would harm relations between
Christians and Muslims.

March 21, 2003 A wave of anti-war protests began to roll across Europe and the Middle
East on Thursday after the opening salvos of the war against Iraq sparked angry
demonstrations in Asia and Australia. Australian film star Heath Ledger has added his voice to the anti-war movement,
calling on Prime Minister John Howard to "grow up" and assert the
nation's independence. "All of a sudden we're an aggressor, we're part of this, we're supporting
this aggression, and it's ridiculous, we shouldn't be." Too
bad more actors are not willing to make a real stand for peace. But it's
always about the money they will lose speaking out for peace in a war hungry
America.

March 20, 2003 The Senate narrowly voted against drilling for oil in the Alaskan
wildlife refuge today, dealing a crippling blow to the central element of the
Bush administration's energy plan.
Bush oil lust allows him to kill for oil and destroy the national
forest as well.

March 20, 2003 Anti-war campaigners are urging people to stop work and protest as war begins
on what they have branded a "day of shame" for the UK. The Stop the War Coalition hopes thousands will take part in
demonstrations on Thursday as anti-war campaigners vent their anger at the
attacks on Baghdad.

March 20, 2003
Mr. Annan said the impending invasion could lead to epidemics
and starvation as UN-administered food stocks run out. Nearly a million Iraqi children suffer from malnutrition, and
millions more lack clean water and access to basic health care,
Mr. Annan told the United Nations Security Council. People
are starving in Afghanistan after we destroyed that country, will it be any
different in Iraq. NO. But that is just collateral damage for Mad
George. There are not Americans are they George?

March 19, 2003 After Mad George
placed Americans in a position where they could not reject war, they have said in
the latest poll that they support him on Iraq. However, there is concern
about the divisions in the world community and 80% still believe in the United
Nations. It all comes down to body count and how long the war and it
repercussions last. It is also going to depend on how vicious we are in
Iraq. It depends on what happens in Israel. It is hard for
Americans to believe that we can be seriously harmed in Iraq. We will
see. There is no doubt that American has significantly damaged the
United Nations and more unfortunately given a green light to Russia and China
to take over areas of the world they consider vital to their interests.
Hopefully that will not include the Middle East. If so, Armageddon
comes.

March 19, 2003 Blair wins support in
Parliament for the war in Iraq. The price within his party was
high. The price to pay at the now divided United Nations will be
high. But the British like all Americans need another reminder of the reality
of war before they say no more war, ever.

March 19, 2003 Some Christians say Islam promotes violence. Jews feel they are being
scapegoated by opponents of a U.S. war on Iraq. A Muslim leader wonders if there's a divine message in the breakup of the shuttle carrying an Israeli astronaut.
In the buildup to war, religious leaders say, interfaith relations in America have been poisoned, causing damage it may take years to heal.

March 18, 2003 They call it Day X, Trigger Day, The Day Of, or The Day After. Anti-war activists are using varying shorthand for an outbreak of war with Iraq - and they are designing a wide menu of protest strategies, from provocation to prayer.

March 17, 2003 U.S. President George W. Bush has warned Prime Minister Recep Tayyip
Erdogan that unilateral Turkish intervention in northern Iraq might lead to
confrontation between Turkish and U.S. troops. The Armageddon scenario
is looking more and more real as the United States begins to confront its
allies in a possible war. Think about the U S at
war with Turkey over the Kurds that occupy Northern Iraq and Southern
Turkey. Think about an American invasion of Iraq drawing in all the
nations of the world into a battle for the Middle East.

March 17, 2003 In its effort to gain
support for war against Iraq, the US has failed to make a convincing case and
failed in its effort to gain the support of the UN Security Council. Having
failed, the US is threatening to act alone and outside the framework of the
United Nations. This is the ultimate threat the US is using to intimidate and
coerce world countries to gain their support. The
tactics the US is using are those of despots, and dictatorships that always go
beyond the law and will use any means to achieve their interests -- bribe,
lie, intimidate, and if all else fails, use force. That is the state of
affairs the world is in today.

March 17, 2003 Pope Issues Strong Appeal
Against War. John Paul has said war against Iraq would be a ``defeat for humanity'' and
has expressed worry that the Muslim world will see any Western-led attack as a
Christian crusade against Islam.

March 16, 2003 The largest-ever international meeting devoted to the world's worsening water
problems is set to begin in Kyoto, Japan on Sunday.Consider these facts: More than one billion people lack
access to a reliable supply of fresh water. Two point four billion people,
more than a third of the world's population, do not have access to proper
sanitation. Freshwater ecosystems around the planet have been severely
degraded. About half of the world's wetlands have been lost and more than 20
percent of the world's 10,000 known freshwater species are extinct.

The most recent report of the United Nations Population Division shows
that for 10 key Islamic nations ? Afghanistan, Algeria, Indonesia,
Iran, Iraq, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Somalia and Yemen ?
population is projected to rapidly grow from 577 million in 2000 to 891
million in 2025 and 1.2 billion in 2050.

Moreover, as a major report from the Central Intelligence Agency ?
"Long-Term Global Demographic Trends: Reshaping the Geopolitical
Landscape" ? warned in July, 2001, before the September terrorist
attacks, many developing nations will experience "substantial youth
bulges" and, ominously, "the largest proportional youth
populations will be located in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia,
Yemen and Iraq."

And, the report warned, "the failure to adequately integrate large
youth populations in the Middle East and Sub-Saharan Africa is most
likely to perpetuate the cycle of political instability, ethnic wars,
revolutions and anti-regime activities that already affect many of these
countries. Unemployed youth provide exceptional fodder for radical
movements and terrorist organizations, particularly in the Middle
East."

March 16, 2003 Tony Blair has told his Cabinet to brace itself for war
on Iraq as early as Wednesday, in the clearest signal yet that hopes of a
diplomatic solution have disappeared.

March 16, 2003 Anti-war protest took
place all over the world but it is doubtful that they will make any difference
because according to the polls Americans have determined that they are kings
of the world and they can act unilaterally, discount the U N, and pretty much
do as they please. So get ready for the the last of three dictators to
try to rule the world per Nostradamus: Napoleon, Hitler and Mad George Bush.

March 16, 2003 Mad George lists 'renewing my faith' above 'getting married' and 'having children'
among the 'defining moments' of his life. His time as Governor of Texas had been
one long experiment in 'faith-based' politics. And in seeking their deliverance
from exile from the White House, the gritty Christian Right from Texas and the
South, who loath anything over-learned, forged an alliance with the
super-intellectual East Coast Zionist movement around Paul Wolfowitz and Richard
Perle. And
soon George W. Bush would be talking the same bellicose language about Iraq.

March 16, 2003 Millions March Against War on March 15 in Over 2,000
Cities Worldwide. "We are determined as an act
of global consciousness to stop an unnecessary war," Rev. Jesse Jackson
said. "If our nation pre-emptively invades a nation without consent of
the world and then kills and occupies people, that is a war crime, and we
become an outlaw state."

The Shadow Men

Everywhere I go
I see the shadows of men long gone.
I see the men whose lives flamed out in Vietnam,
Korea, World War One and Two.

I see the black shadows of parental joys
absorbed by the blackness of nothingness,
of birthdays never celebrated,
of grandchildren never conceived,
of joys and love snuffed out
like candles in an ill wind.

But now the dark door of death
has been opened and into its void we stare
but not seeing the needless pain and suffering
and the sacrifice of another generation
irrevocably scarred by war.

Instead, we see movies of John Wayne
and other big screen stars playing war
in a surreal world of fantasy where
blood is paint and death is an illusion;
where actors go home after making their digital lie.

That vision is what blinds the mind to the
reality of murdered sons and crippled veterans who
wonder why they fought in those unjust wars.

The shadows of the "to be sacrificed" sons and daughters
begin to gather on the other side of the door of death
while patriots on this side wave flags and discount
the lives of all those who are not American
and dig holes in the ground for lifeless
soldiers who died for ??????

WorldPeace
March 15, 2003

For the children who will never see their parents alive again,
for the parents who will never see their children alive again,
for the widows and widowers,
for the returning half men and women,
"I will never give up working for WorldPeace
so that you may be the last survivors of an expendable generation."

March 16, 2003 By a 2-1 margin, Americans said the United States needs to preserve the American tradition of not launching attacks on other countries unless it is attacked, rather than taking military action against countries before they can threaten or strike this country.
But that makes no difference to Warmonger George.

March 16, 2003 Intelligence
documents that U.S. and British governments said were strong evidence that Iraq
was developing nuclear weapons have been dismissed as forgeries by U.N. weapons
inspectors. And this is not the only lie Americans
have been told about Iraq.

March 16, 2003 Speaking at a northern Virginia forum a week ago, Moran said that ''if it were not for the strong support of the Jewish community for this war with Iraq we would not be doing this. ... The leaders of the Jewish community are influential enough that they could change the direction of where this is going and I think they should.''
Hey Jim, show me when an anti-Jewish remark by a
politician ever went unpunished. Yet Paul Wolfowitz and Richard Perle, two East Coast Zionist, are along with Dick Cheney the
architects of the war on Iraq. (See above) But ole Jim just did not have the
guts to point to Wolfowitz and Perle as examples of what he was talking about.

March 15, 2003 Country music superstars can break all the rules --
cheatin', drinkin', druggin' or just runnin' wild -- and still keep the love of their fans. But
don't tread on the Stars and Stripes.

That's just what many country music fans believe the Dallas-based Dixie
Chicks did when they criticized President Bush during a recent London
performance. After 13 years of climbing their way to the top of the country
music charts, the Chicks took a dive with fans when they told a foreign audience
what they thought of Bush and the impending war against Iraq.

"Just so you know," Chicks lead singer Natalie Maines told the
London audience, "we're ashamed the president of the United States is from
Texas."

And after I heard this, I went out and bought their
album. WorldPeace

March 15, 2003 President Bush and his principal allies against Iraq on
Friday arranged an emergency weekend summit to discuss their failure to achieve
United Nations approval of a resolution authorizing war and to set a course
toward imminent military action. Is it possible the the United States of America will pre-emptively attack Iraq without any support from the rest of the world. Is it possible that America will allow Mad George Bush to destroy the legitimacy of the United Nations?

March 14, 2003
Pakistan yesterday instructed its ambassador to the UN to abstain from a
Security Council vote on any resolution meant to authorize war against Iraq,
officials said amid persistent reports that Pakistani officials fear
repercussions from the U.S. if they do not back its push for war, while weighing
loyalty to other Muslim states and intense popular pressure to oppose war.

March 14, 2003
The United States is moving about 10 Navy ships armed
with Tomahawk cruise missiles from the eastern Mediterranean to the Red Sea,
senior U.S. officials said Thursday. The move indicates weakening U.S.
confidence that Turkey will grant over flight rights for U.S. planes and
missiles. Turkey has taken a hard line against the war in Iraq. Mad
George is forcing our Muslim allies to chose between aligning themselves with
other Muslim nations or the blood thirsty USA.

March 14, 2003 War
is bad for the world economy. On the Japanese stock market, the Nikkei Average has dropped 80
percent since 1989. It has lost one-fifth of its value in the past month and
skidded to 20 year lows in recent days. A major reason for the contraction is surging oil prices amid concerns of a
possible war in Iraq.

March 12, 2003 The Christian world begins to talk out loud about Iraq and Armageddon and Apocalypse Now. Who would have ever thought that the United States would be the bad guy in the Book of Revelation.

March 12, 2003 The economy of the U S is in a tailspin.
After every spike in oil prices since 1973, the U S has experienced a recession. So when the body bags begin to come home and the economy
unemploys Americans and creates a recession in America and the rest of the world,
will you still vote for Mad George in 2004?

March 12, 2003 US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on Tuesday left open the
possibility that the United States might invade Iraq without the help of British
forces. Is it possible the Mad George will invade Iraq without any support from any other nation in the world?

ARMAGEDDON IS COMING

Armageddon is coming but no one wants to talk about it because Mad George is the Anti-Christ.

Mad George is the one who is making war on the whole world. Can anyone deny that he is prepared to invade Iraq when the whole world is against it?

Can anyone deny that the United States is the holder of the world's biggest arsenal of the weapons of mass destruction?

The whole world is about to be destabilized by Mad George.

And when that war in Iraq begins, are you going to deny that you let it happened?

When your children come home from Iraq in body bags and your grand children are bombed at the local theater and you have no job because the world economy has been disrupted, are you going to
deny that you did nothing while Mad George turned the world upside down?

Are you going to be a proud American when we for the second time use nuclear bombs on Iraq like we did on Japan? Now Japan was a real threat to WorldPeace. But Iraq's only real sin is the fact that it is sitting on top of 112 billion
barrels of oil.

I just want you to know that I am screaming as loud as I can, STOP THE
INSANITY.

I just want you to remember that WorldPeace was against Mad George and Ariel Sharon and their arrogance.

I just want you to know that in the end there will be WorldPeace but I think that you are going to find that the worldpeace that Mad George is promising is going to cost more than you were willing to pay.

No problem. If you let Mad George have his war, then you, not me, will be forever known as
a 21st Century Nazis. You will spend your old age being looked at with contempt by your grandchildren for the hell that you allowed to manifest on earth.

Have no doubt that if this war in Iraq takes place: there will be hell on earth. There will be worldwide depression. There will be worldwide famine. There will be plagues like never before. There will be a loss of freedom in many ways. There will be chaos in the streets. Pain and Suffering and Death will be everywhere.

But in the end, after the great purging of all the war mongers great and small, there will be WorldPeace.

The questions will always be, "Was it worth it?' and "How could America have been so arrogant to think it could make war on the entire world and win?"

When it is all over, those of you who survive, ask yourselves if you are proud to be an American.

March 11, 2003 Polls show support in America for war is growing but
support for Bush is dropping

March 11, 2003 A U N mandate is necessary to legitimize any war in Iraq. Without the mandate, the war will be immoral and will give the green light to any other nation who wants to
preemptively strike a nation that has something it wants. A preemptive, unsupported by the U N, invasion of Iraq will lead the major world powers to grab whatever they want world wide. China taking Taiwan for instance.

March 11, 2003 Even while Bush prepares for his war against Iraq, he still takes time to open up the national forest to logging. Bush has no respect for people, the
environment, world law, or anything that really matters. He is just a black hatted cowboy looking to start some trouble in the world.

March 10, 2003 Allied bombs threaten a new generation of
Iraqi children
with trauma, disease and death. In a country where almost half the population is under 14, aid
agencies predict that a new conflict will bring widespread death,
displacement and disease, and for those who survive, lasting
psychological problems. The situation is already serious. More than a
third of Iraqi children are undernourished, and those suffering from
serious diseases, including cancer allegedly connected to the use of
depleted uranium shells in the Gulf War, has doubled in the past 10
years. One in four babies born is underweight; eight million children
depend on state rations.

March 10, 2003 More than 10,000 Lebanese and Palestinian demonstrators poured into
Syria on Sunday to express support for Syrian President Bashar Assad?s stance
against the United States on Iraq and Israel. Suleiman Qaddah, an aide to
Assad, told demonstrators, ?The United States? determination to launch war against Iraq using the
pretext of it having weapons of mass destruction is not convincing anyone in the
world ? The real danger to the region is Israel, not
Iraq.? Up to 800,000 people gathered in Indonesia?s second-largest city of Surabaya
on Sunday to pray for peace in the biggest anti-Iraq war event yet in the
world?s most populous Muslim nation.

March 10, 2003 If anything, U.N. rejection of a resolution giving Iraq until March 17
to disarm could accelerate war rather than delay it, Powell implied.
Absent a formal ultimatum, the United States would be free to act before
that date, he suggested.After the U.N. vote, Bush intends to issue a public ultimatum to Saddam
telling him to disarm or face invasion within days, according to senior
administration officials. That Bush speech will be a warning as well to
any arms inspectors or humanitarian aid workers inside Iraq that the time
has come to leave.

March 10, 2003 International Development Secretary Clare
Short,
describing Blair as "reckless", said she would resign if there
was no second United Nations' resolution for invasion. I
will not uphold a breach of international law or this
undermining of the U.N. and I will resign from the government," the
government minister, renowned for speaking her mind, said.

March 10, 2003 U S
intelligence shows IRAN is working hard on a nuclear device. Is Mad George going to invade IRAN as well as IRAQ or are the Zionist going to strike IRAN first?
Israel destroyed an Iraqi nuclear plant in 1981, and is deeply alarmed by the development in Iran, Time reported.

March 10, 2003 How has Iraq, a country with a lower gross domestic product than
Essex, managed to split the UN, divide NATO, and throw the European
Union into disarray?

March 10, 2003 In the early hours of March 6, 2003, hundreds of Israeli troops reoccupied
the old city of Nablus using tanks, armoured personnel carriers APCs), and
tactics of inhuman brutality report ISM-Vancouver?s Carel Moieiwitsch
and Gordon Murray. ?In less than 48 hours since arriving in Nablus, we have seen Israeli
soldiers kidnap and beat civilians and medical personnel, as well as the
deliberate destruction of personal property including blasting large holes
in walls between houses and the gutting of entire homes,? said Murray.

Krystallnacht -- a reference to the Nazi Holocaust. In 1939 it was "the night of broken crystal, when there was
a sweep of the state-empowered police and young Nazis through the Jewish
sections of the German cities, when every pane of glass that was in any way
related to the Jewish culture -- be it the window of a store, a synagogue, or a
private home -- was shattered. 'If we rid ourselves of the scum known as Jews,'
the authorities said, 'We will have solved the social problems of the nation.'"

Thousands of women from San Francisco to Washington, D.C.,
and dozens of places in between took to the streets Saturday to honor
International Women's Day by protesting against the possibility of war with
Iraq.Some wore pink as a symbol of oppression. Others wore black as a symbol of
death. They carried placards, chanted slogans and sang songs.Some even got
arrested(Stefan Zaklin/Getty Images)...

March 9, 2003 UN launches inquiry into
American spying. Sources in the office of UN Secretary General Kofi Annan confirmed last night
that the spying operation had already been discussed at the UN's
counter-terrorism committee and will be further investigated.The operation is thought to have been authorised by US National Security
Adviser Condoleezza Rice, but American intelligence experts told The Observer
that a decision of this kind would also have involved Donald Rumsfeld, CIA
director George Tenet and NSA chief General Michael Hayden. President Bush himself would have been informed.

Jimmy Carter decries
unilateral war on Iraq

Former president says
invasion to topple Saddam unjust

NEW YORK, March 9 ?
Former
U.S. president and Nobel Peace Prize winner Jimmy Carter on Sunday condemned
preparations for a unilateral U.S. attack on Iraq, saying it would be an unjust
war ?almost unprecedented in the history of civilized
nations.??

IN AN ARTICLE in The New York Times, Carter said profound changes
in U.S. foreign policy had reversed ?consistent bipartisan commitments that for
more than two centuries have earned our nation greatness.?? ? ? ?Carter, who
served as president from 1977 to 1981, said that during his term he was
?severely provoked by international crises.?? ? ? ??I became thoroughly
familiar with the principles of a just war, and it is clear that a substantially
unilateral attack on Iraq does not meet these standards,? he said.? ? ?
?President Bush is facing widespread international opposition to his threats to
invade Iraq and topple President Saddam Hussein, who Washington accuses of
hiding chemical and biological weapons.? ? ? ?Bush has said he will not let
the absence of U.N. approval stop him, describing U.S. security as paramount.
Saddam has denied having weapons of mass destruction and several members of the
U.N. Security Council want continued U.N. arms inspections rather than war.?
? ? ?Carter, who won the Nobel Peace Prize last year, said Iraq did not directly
threaten U.S. security.? ? ? ??But now ... despite the overwhelming
opposition of most people and governments in the world, the United States seems
determined to carry out military and diplomatic action that is almost
unprecedented in the history of civilized nations,? he wrote.? ? ? ?Carter
described Bush?s attempts to link Iraq to the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on America
as unconvincing and said the president had no international authority to
establish a ?Pax Americana in the region, perhaps occupying the ethnically
divided country for as long as a decade.?

March 9, 2003 Mad
George is wrecking U S European relationships over his rush to war
mentality. The world is not looking favorably on the Bush's unilateral
position as the world's only super power. Unilateralism not just regarding Iraq, but on the Kyoto accord, the world
criminal court, the international landmine and antiballistic missiles
treaties ? and all the other multilateral agreements from which America
has walked away in recent years. Mad George thinks he is king of the
world, all to the detriment of the world. At a time when the world's
only super power should be leading the world to peace, Bush is leading the
world to peace through war. A kill for peace mentality that is typical
of a sociopathic moron.

March 9, 2003 Acclaimed authors Alice
Walker and Maxine Hong Kingston were among a group of 23 women arrested in front
of the White House on Saturday as they protested along with thousands of other
women against what they called a
misguided march toward war, protest organizers said.

March 9, 2003 Saddam demands that sanctions be lifted. It also demanded that the Security Council denounce the United States and
Britain as "liars," strip Israel of its alleged weapons of mass
destruction and force it to pull out of "Palestine and occupied Arab
land."

March 9, 2003 The World Food Programme (WFP) says it is
"very concerned" over the high growth rates of HIV/AIDS in
Burundi, which have reached 20 percent in urban areas and 7.5 percent in
the countryside.

March 8, 2003 Today
is International Women's Day. Until women take an equal place in the
world society, we will not have a whole society. Until the innate
compassion of women tempers the innate aggression of men, there will be no
peace or WorldPeace.

March 8, 2003 If U.S. intelligence is so good, why are
United Nations experts still unable to confirm that Saddam Hussein is actively
concealing and producing illegal weapons? And more importantly, what is it
that Mad George is looking at that makes him believe there are weapons of mass
destruction? The reality is that George has nothing of consequence.

March 8, 2003 Standing at the brink of war with Iraq, President
Bush is preparing to roll the dice on a high-risk gamble that could remake
the Mideast in America's image -- or trigger an explosion of violence,
chaos and terrorism that shakes the world, shocks the economy and destroys
his presidency.

March 8, 2003 Blix report gives fuel
to both sides of the security council and the division between the hawks and
doves seems to be more entrenched with each passing day. No one can say
that progress is not being made. The question is how much more time
should Iraq be given. It is going to be hard to hold troops in place for
three more months.

March 8, 2003 Mad George is about to throw US into a $1.8 Trillion deficit with his economic policies. Hey, "It's the economony, little stupid!"

March 8, 2003 Israeli forces have seized a band of territory in the
northern Gaza Strip in what a senior officer says is an open-ended stay to
thwart Palestinian rocket attacks on southern Israel. In the end not even occupying all of Palestine will stop the retaliation. But if George can take over Iraq, then Sharon can take over Palestine.

March 7, 2003 Colin Powell needs to preserve his honorable name and resign for the good of America. Cyrus
Vance resigned over the Carter
administration's handling of American affairs in the wake of the Iranian
Revolution in 1978-79. Vance was a man of principle, caught in the gears of an
internal ideological struggle in the White House. It is time for Colin
Powell to follow the Vance example.

March 7, 2003 The International
Space Station "WorldPeace Star" at your IMAX theater now.

March 7, 2003 For all the Presidents war talk, can he really walk out on the United Nations? Can he ignore a veto? If that happens, could we ever go to the United Nations for anything? If Bush was going to act unilaterally, he should have never gone to the U N in the first place.

March 7, 2003 Israelis are starving the Palestinians to death. $2
million live below the poverty level of $2 per day.

March 6, 2003 Powell says that Saddam is splitting the international community. The world says that it is the Mad George who is splitting the international community into the United States and everyone else.

March 6, 2003 Students across the USA walk out of class to protest war in Iraq.

March 6, 2003 Suicide blast kills 15 in Haifa. No matter how tough the crack down by the Israelis, the bombings will never stop until the Palestinians are allowed their own state. The Israeli's should be a lesson to America regarding what can and will happen on American streets when Mad George invades Iraq. Those who sow the wind will reap the whirlwind.

March 6, 2003 The reality is that the U S is buying the votes it needs to pass a second resolution in the U N Security Council. That is all that it is about, money. But the money is blood money because in almost every
case the leaders of the non permanent nations on the security council are taking money despite the demand of their citizens to stop the coming war in
Iraq. History will record these leaders as the dupes of Mad George Bush.
So far only Turkey has said no to George. But that was a real big no.

March 6, 2003 The United Nations says that thousands of children in Uganda are starving. But so what. It is more important to use American dollars to kill Iraqis with weapons of mass destruction.

March 6, 2003 Truth, it's often noted, is the first casualty of war. This time isn't any
different, even though a shot has yet to be fired. Here's a reality check on
some of the whoppers circulating in the lead-up to conflict.

March 6, 2003 The
scariest question of many surrounding the looming war with Iraq involves Iraqi
chemical and biological weapons and Israeli nuclear bombs.

March 5, 2003 U S Gulf force nears
300,000. It looks like Bush is going to war no matter what; U N
resolution or not. If he isn't a 21st century Hitler and 19th century
Napoleon then no one is. The United States cannot act unilaterally in
the world and if it does, it will extinguish its light of freedom and justice
for all, for centuries to come. The best example of an anti-Christ on
the planet right now is George W. Bush.

March 5, 2003 75
million Americans were uninsured in 2001-2002. Bush needs to be
home taking care of the economy and health care for Americans instead of
starting a uncontrollable war in the Middle East for oil, democracy, oil,
Christianity, oil, and the un-American way and oil.

March 5, 2003 The U S is sending 24 B-1 and B-52 bombers to the island of Guam in the Pacific to deter any aggression by Pyongyang in case of a war in
Iraq. It is not impossible that North Korea will start a war about the
time that Bush invades Iraq. The timing would be perfect for North Korea
because the U S would not be able to respond quickly; unless George just nukes
them and he is capable of that unfortunately.

March 5, 2003 Despite U.S. confidence it would get
enough votes for a U.N. resolution authorizing war with Iraq, positions
have hardened with U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan pleading for a
compromise.

75% of UK support war on Iraq if there is a U N resolution

SUPPORT among the British public for UK
involvement in a war on Iraq has begun to pick up again, after months of growing
opposition.

Support for British troops taking part in a war fell from 71
per cent last September to 61 per cent in January, but has now risen to 75 per
cent, with 18 per cent opposed in any circumstances, according to Mori.

But that support is conditional both on United Nations weapons
inspectors finding proof that Iraq is hiding weapons of mass destruction and on
the UN Security Council voting in favour of military action.In the
absence of those conditions, less than a quarter (24 per cent) would be willing
for Britain to join a US-led attack, against 67 per cent who would be opposed.
The findings indicate Tony Blair has had some success in his efforts to persuade
the public at least of the need for war.

March 5, 2003 Britain and the United States were last night forced to
reconsider their strategy for war on Iraq after Russia indicated it would veto
a second United Nations resolution and doubts grew that wavering Third World
countries would back it. If either Russia or France is serious about a
veto, then China will no doubt join in and the permanent members of the U N
will be split causing chaos around the world until Americans send Mad George
into retirement with Daddy George.

March 5, 2003 Russia yesterday warned the US and UK against planning regime change in
Iraq and repeating the bitter experiences of the former Soviet Union in
trying to force a new political order on the world.

March 4, 2003 Problems with a 'painless' war.
While reflecting on the Napoleonic wars in the 19th century, the Prussian
philosopher-soldier Carl von Clausewitz penned his famous line that "war is
a continuation of politics by other means". Later in the same century,
having witnessed first-hand the destructive power of war, American General
William Tecumseh Sherman would assert, war "is all hell".

March 3, 2003 While the United States kept hawkish calls to disarm Iraq of its allegedly
banned weapons, it prepared to use the toxic riot-control agents CS gas
and pepper spray against the Iraqi people. Defense Secretary
Rumsfeld attacked he "straitjacket" imposed by bans
in international treaties on using the weapons in warfare. A special working group of the Federation of American Scientists concluded
last month that using even the mildest of these weapons to incapacitate
people would kill 9 percent of them.

March 3, 2003 With over 140 thousand troops in Iraq, the word is that the United States of America will invade Iraq between March 15 and March 20.

March 3, 2003 Muslims protests the coming U S invasion of Iraq. No one can doubt that if Mad George invades Iraq, Americans are going to die all around the world in a Holy War on Christian America.

Saddam, "But all I have is oil. I do not have any weapons
of mass destruction."

George, "Too bad. I told everyone you did.
Can you say mushroom cloud. Better grab a fast camel out of the
country."

March 2, 2003 Turkey
Parliament denies U S troop deployment. Looks like Mad George is being given a dose of reality. I think we all know that if George cannot invade Iraq, he is going to look like the buffoon that he is and America is going to lose its prestige around the world.
How tragic that George has put the U S in this position.

March 2, 2003 More than 170 countries have backed a proposed global treaty to limit the supply and consumption of
tobacco aimed at reducing smoking-related death and disease.

March 2, 2003 Pope to send an envoy to George to express his position on the war in Iraq. The question is whether or not Mad George will
receive the envoy.

March 2, 2003 Mad George indicates that he is going after Saddam with or without the U N.

March 1, 2003 Feedback: Your thinly veiled anti-American propaganda is symptomatic of the neurosis
which will destroy us in the end.

March 1, 2003 Feedback: Are we invading Iraq out of fear or for humanitarian reasons or for OIL?

March 1, 2003 If we continue with activities which destroy our
environment and undermine the conditions for our own survival, we become a virus
upon the earth.
Making the change needed to avoid that fate is perhaps the greatest challenge we
have ever faced.

March 1, 2003 Prime Minister Tony Blair yesterday dismissed Baghdad?s offer to give up the
Al-Samoud 2 missiles as an empty gesture, designed to undermine the unity of
the international community. ''This is the deception the president
predicted'' Mad George's spokesman said Friday. He said President Bush expected Iraq to destroy some of its missiles, but won't settle for anything less than full disarmament.
It seems nothing will satisfy Bush and Blair except war.

March 1, 2003 Last June, a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 2-1 that the words
"under God'' amount to a government endorsement of religion and violate the separation of church and state.
The interesting thing is that American coins have had "in God we
Trust" stamped on them since 1863. So what about that God?

February 28, 2003 Yesterday, the Italian media said U.S. President George W. Bush had shrugged off the
Pope's pleas for peace, quoting White House spokesman Ari Fleischer as saying Bush would not be influenced by the pontiff's opinion. Is anyone surprised? Mad George is his own god. What does he care that the Pope of one billion Catholics think.

February 27, 2003 Bush speaks about teaching the backward people of Iraq about democracy and Jesus and the implementation of Daddy George's New World Order. Of course Mad George is only talking about the Iraqis who survive his weapons of mass destruction applied during the invasion.

February 27, 2003 The North Koreans are becoming more and more belligerent. Wouldn't it be tragic if a war broke out in Korea while Bush had put all his
military resources around Iraq? The price of oil is up and rising. The world is every day more adverse to invading Iraq. The U S economy is going to hell. North Korea will not shut up. And Mad George is giving idiotic speeches about making all Muslim into Christians.

February 27, 2003 Oil Prices Shoot to a 12-Year High. And when Mad George invades Iraq the price of gas will double. But hey, this is good for George's price gouging oil companies.

February 27, 2003 Britain's Tony Blair faced a
rebellious Parliament last night. A clear message was sent to Blair that the anti-war movement in England is significant and he had better pay attention.

February 26, 2003 Saddam's interview seems to indicate that he is
not as stupid as George thinks. The media is presently
reporting very little on the coming war which seems to mean that Powell and company are not doing well selling their Iraqi war for oil to the rest of the world.
I would really like to see a debate between Mad George and Saddam on international TV but George would
make all Americans look stupid. So let us not encourage it.

February 26, 2003 The majority of Americans are critical of Bush economics. The war drums have
quieted a bit and the economy debate is on the front burner. In the end, the Bush economics of Daddy Bush are going to terminate Little
George's presidency. Hey George, "It's the economy Little Stupid."
Someone needs to tell Mad George that greed is not economics.

February 26, 2003 Kurds in Northern Iraq
are ready to fight the Turks if they send troops across the border. Just more evidence of the complicated mess that George is about to create in the Middle East.

February 24, 2003 The United States military is bragging that it is going to put on the show of shows. It is going to show us the opening chapter in a continuation of the three centuries of delusional imperialist:
Napoleon, Hitler and George Bush. Bush is going to show the whole world what kind or real power of mass destruction that the United States has. He is going to send a message to the whole world that the
real Darth Vader is alive and well. Get ready. With the use of the internet, you are going to see things you have never seen before as a real war of real blood and guts and murderous acts are going to be posted all over the internet. And according to George, the first mushroom cloud since 1945. Mothers and fathers the internet is about to
literally immortalize the death of your children in high tech color. The world is about to be forever changed because of the demented war monger in the White House.
My bet is that after this war begins you will be hard pressed to hear the song, "I'm proud to be an American."

February 24, 2003 If Bush decides to launch war without UN approval, he will have essentially torn
up the U N Charter and taken us back a century to the situation before the First
World War where each country took care of its own interests and regarded force
as a legitimate means of action.

February 23, 2003 Saddam says that
Iraq will emerge victorious and the U S admits that it is worried about a
scorched earth war. "Fighting a war (against US-led forces) will settle a host of
things, and will enable Iraq to regain its glory," Saddam said.
Does anyone think that Saddam did not learn anything
from the 1991 war? Does anyone really think he has not used the
last ten years to prepare to fight the United States again? Has anyone
considered that Saddam has been living with sanctions for ten years and no fly
zones patrolled by the U S and Britain? To
whatever level he is capable, Saddam is ready for a war with Mad George.

February 23, 2003 America has entered one of its periods of historical madness, but this
is the worst in recent memory: worse than McCarthyism, worse than the
Bay of Pigs
and in the long term potentially more disastrous than the Vietnam
War.

February 23, 2003 Americans begin to bash the French for their anti-war views. Wait until the body bags begin to come home. Are you willing to sacrifice your children before you are absolutely sure
a war in Iraq is necessary?
Actually has anyone considered that the nineteenth
century Hitler was Napoleon. Maybe the French and Germans
have learned something about trying to take over the world.

February 23, 2003 Bush gets support from Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar even though the
Spanish population is 85% against the war in Iraq. Go figure.

There has been no war more contested than
Vietnam. When American warriors came home from that war, they were called
baby killers and there was little respect for those who walked the streets in
their uniforms. After the war, the VA funds were cut for those who needed
help. And today hundreds of thousands of men have never fully recovered
from their experiences in Vietnam.

Has anyone considered how our vets are going to be
treated when they return from Iraq? Warriors from an unjust war live with
a certain stigma for life. Think about all those ex-Nazis living in
Germany and all those Japanese who were humiliated after being defeated in World
War II.

If America, for the first time in its history, enters
Iraq without the support of the United Nations, or enters for the wrong reasons
even with the support of the U N, those soldiers who participate are going
to be branded the same way that the Germans and the Japanese and the American
Vietnam veterans are now.

And as far as a long term occupation of Iraq, what we
did in Germany and Japan after WWII was not carried out in the middle of a
hostile Muslim population in all the neighboring countries.

WorldPeace
February 23, 2003

February 22, 2003 The World Council of Churches (WCC), which groups Christian and
Orthodox churches worldwide, on Friday, February 21, branded as immoral
and unwise looming U.S.-British war on Iraq and praised U.S. and British
churches for standing up to politicians in their countries. Yet George Bush, being a Christian in name only, thumbs his nose not only at the Protestants but also at the
Catholic Pope who also considers the war immoral.

February 22, 2003 The Bush War administration plans to take complete, unilateral control of a
post-Saddam Hussain Iraq, with an interim administration headed by a yet-to-be
named American civilian who will direct the reconstruction of the country and
the creation of a "representative" Iraqi government, according to a
now-finalized outline described by U.S. officials and other sources. And
with that little George takes the first step in becoming the American Fuhrer.

February 22, 2003 President Chirac
of France, who has become the de facto spokesman of antiwar forces in
Europe and around the world, appeared to be one step ahead of his U.S. and
British counterparts with his coalition of African nations. He said at today's news conference that he was confident
he could hold together a coalition opposed to war.

February 21, 2003 First it was the doomsday arsenal he said Iraq is hiding from the world. Then it was Baghdad?s alleged links to Al-Qaeda militants. Now British Prime Minister Tony Blair is highlighting the ?moral case?
for military action against President Saddam Hussein ? his ?barbarous and detestable? human rights record.

February 21, 2003 The DOW is under 8000. How far down does it have to go before someone realizes that not only is George moving the world toward war but he is also moving us toward a worldwide depression. Consider America receiving a constant stream of body bags from Iraq while we sit at home unemployed.

February 21, 2003 The Pope is becoming a focal point for many who are trying to avoid little George's war on Iraq. The world is reaching for a higher authority because everyone knows that an Iraq invasion is wrong and the consequences will be devastating.

February 20, 2003 Further delays in the international humanitarian response to the
drought situation in Eritrea could turn the current crisis into an
appalling cycle of hunger and desperation

February 20, 2003 The US showed no sign
of loosening its veto on the lucrative patent rights enjoyed by its powerful
pharmaceutical industry. Yesterday, there was evidence of growing anger among
other countries over the behavior of the WTO's most powerful member, whose
opposition has deadlocked discussions for more than a year on clarifying the
rules that allow poor countries to break patents and import cheap copies of
medicines. In the meantime AIDS, Malaria and TB continue to decimate the world population.

February 20, 2003 Bush says that he is a hawk and all those silly people protesting the death and destruction that is about to come
out of Iraq are just misguided. All real men like war. And all real Americans love war.

February 20, 2003 Apparently
due to the US' Iraq policy and economic slowdown, President George Bush's
job approval ratings have dipped to 52 per cent, a sharp decline from
64 per cent two months ago, a survey has said.

February 20, 2003 The vast majority of the 32 non-security council member nations of the UN who spoke on Iraq on Tuesday and Wednesday were against war in Iraq at this time and advocated more inspections. The world continues to push for peace while Bush continues to prepare for his war for oil.

February 19, 2003 Rumsfeld prepares the U S for thousands of body bags coming home from Iraq. The sacrifice of our children is about to begin.
U S Flags for coffins are being produced in large
quantities. Bush has cut back funding to the V A hospitals so the maimed, crippled, gassed casualties are going to be laying in their own bodily fluids just like after Vietnam. But we will have plenty of oil.

February 19, 2003 Dubya Bush says " I don't care what all those hippie war
protesters do, I am going to get me some oil and kill me a whole lot of Iraqis. (I hope I can find Saddam)
Tell those Iraqi kids to duck. I am the king of the world because I am the commander of the real weapons of total
annihilation. Mushroom clouds are a beautiful thing."

February 18, 2003 British Chancellor issues warning to world's drug companies that they must provide life saving drugs for
AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis to poor countries as a matter of morality.
The United States, under pressure from its powerful drug
industry, last year blocked World Trade Organization proposals aimed at
giving millions in the poor world access to affordable medicine.

February 18, 2003 No matter what North Korea does it cannot get the attention of George Bush. And at the same time
Bush seems to be telling Iraq that no matter how many weapons of mass destruction that we cannot find, and no matter how much they comply with the weapons inspectors, George Bush is not fooled. George is having a hard time finding Bin-Laden who does exist as well as the weapons of mass destruction in Iraq that do not seem to exist. Is George a buffoon. Yes.

February 16, 2003 Blix says U S proof overblown. Bush used Powell to play his best card
to the U N and in the end Powell's credibility was sacrificed.

February 16, 2003 Worldwide over eight million
demonstrators protested the Bush War on Iraq. Britain held the largest peace gathering in its history which proves that Tony Blair is having a lot of trouble supporting Dubya Bush and his war on Iraq.

February 15, 2003 Bush is told
to tone down his fundamental Christian rhetoric because it tends to verify the
Muslim characterization of the Dubya war for oil as the new Crusades.

February 15, 2003 The U S is out
voted 12 to 3 on the U N Security Council to give Saddam more time. Only
Spain and Britain supported the U S and Tony Blair said that Iraq should be
dealt with by the U N. In a word, it looks like Saddam gets more time
and if Bush starts a war in Iraq, the U S will be the lone ranger in the
invasion. Overall it looks like the beginning of the end of Dubya Bush
as his big play to invade Iraq and fire his nuclear missiles has shown that
you can't fool all the people all the time and "you can lead the world to
the edge of war, but you can't make them fight." So much for Bushit.

February 14, 2003 Bush says that if
the U N does not go to war then it will "fade into history as an ineffective, irrelevant, debating
society." No doubt Bush is the most powerful man in the world.
Unfortunately for the world he has chosen the path of world war and not
WorldPeace. The world society is at an
unprecedented cross roads with an American Hitler choosing the future of world
politics. Have no doubt that the repercussions of a war in Iraq
will be long lived and the end of the American vision of truth and justice for
all. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

February 14, 2003 Millions are set
to march for peace. Anti-war protests are expected in 300 cities world
wide.

Do you really think we are going to be able to preemptively strike Iraq and
not suffer casualties in the USA? At the mall, at the movies, at sports
events? Do you think that flying planes into buildings is the only
terroristic option? Do you think you will ever feel safe again after
Warmonger Bush uses nuclear weapons in Iraq? Are you ready to bury your
children so you can continue to drive your SUV?

This is the face of nuclear war, famine,
pestilence, death, destruction and hell on earth.

February 14, 2003
Rumsfeld turns up
the volume on the use of nuclear weapons in Iraq. Where is the U N
resolution that will put George Bush in jail for war crimes and crimes against
humanity if he uses the nuclear option for any reason? The battle of
Armageddon ends with nuclear war. Who thinks Russia will not enter the
Middle East if George really enters Iraq? What world powers are going to
allow Warmonger Bush to control the oil in the Middle East? Who thinks
he will stop in Iraq? Why should he? Yes, Armageddon looks more
and more real everyday. The Neo-Bush Crusades against Muslims, nuclear
war, and Armageddon.

February 14, 2003 Clinton speaks at University of Texas and says nothing. He needs to write some worth reading books like Nixon did after he left office or spend his life in pursuit of the perfect Monica. Collecting $100,000 per empty speech proves him a hollow man.

February 13, 2003 Another alleged Bin Laden tape has emerged where he claims he will die a martyr in a final act of terrorism this year. Well if
this is true, you can bet that his final act of terrorism will be a lot more than taking down a few buildings. Well see.
Little George is intent on giving us a front row seat in the Armageddon
scenario.

February 13, 2003 Oil is now at $36 per
barrel and U S fuel stocks are the lowest since the 1970's Arab oil embargo. And all this is this brought to you by the mentally deficient George Bush. Without an invasion of Iraq, there is nothing to George Bush. There is no domestic agenda moving through the U S Congress
right now.

February 13, 2003 China has given its first
quiet warnings for the U N to stay out of North Korea. There can be no doubt that if George goes into Iraq China will not only go into North Korea but also Taiwan.
And soon while the world is in chaos over Iraq.

February 13, 2003 The word from U S intelligence is that North Korea has the ability to
nuke the West Coast. So why isn't George worried? The answer is because the Chinese told
him to leave North Korea alone.

February 13, 2003 France advocates significantly increasing the number of U N inspectors in an effort to stop a U S invasion of Iraq.

February 12, 2003 Britain begins discussion of post Saddam government. The trick will be to keep from splintering the country into various factions due to the concentration of Kurds in the North and
Shiites Muslims in the South. The whole region is going to be destabilized and the Third Millennium Crusades
will begin as the Christians take over a Muslim Nation.

February 12, 2003 Bin-Laden calls for suicide bombers to kill Americans in Iraq. You can be sure that 911 was just the beginning of American blood being spilled on American soil if little George invades Iraq.
Will it be your children who die from a suicide bomber at your local mall, movie or fast food restaurant?

February 12, 2003 Washington Post and ABC Polls show that Americans still back a Bush war in Iraq even without a U N resolution. The numbers drop significantly if Britain is not with us in the invasion.
But in Britain a third of the public still believes that the U S is the greatest threat to WorldPeace.

February 12, 2003 British Parliament is demanding an emergency statement on Iraq because it has caused a dangerous rift in NATO

February 12, 2003 The Russians seem to be joining the French and Germans to slow down little George's rush to war.

February 11, 2003 Millions of Palestinians face hunger due to the
world's focus on Iraq. Ariel Sharon is happy. Bush is apathetic.

February 10, 2003 Does Bush really think we are all stupid in regards to his propaganda about
Iraq?

February 10, 2003 Bush pushes churches to take up taking care of the poor his economy is creating. Bush is
pouring billions into an Iraq attack and starving Americans in the process. I think he calls it compassionate
conservativism. It is where he murders children in Iraq and starves children
in America.

February 10, 2003 The economists continue to say that war will be bad for the economy. But like his daddy, little George does not understand that it is the economy, little stupid.

February 10, 2003 Protesters around the world continue to chant "No blood for oil". The anti-war movement continues to grow.

February 10, 2003 Thousands of Iraqi children will be killed by murderous
George. So what are ten thousand children to Oily George. Not a bad price in his economics.

February 9, 2003 2,000 protest the war in Iraq in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The anti-war protests of the Vietnam era have returned. There was a Republican in the White House then too.

February 9, 2003 France and Germany have devised a plan to put thousands of peacekeepers in Baghdad. And the idiot Bush did not even know the plan was being considered. This is the same guy that can't find Bin-Laden and can't find any weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.

February 9, 2003 Warmonger Bush ignores North Korea who has a nuclear weapon and is threatening to use it while he goes after Saddam who does not. Its the oil. Its the oil. Its the oil.

February 8, 2003 Germany and France continue to push for peace while Rumsfeld tries to browbeat them into jumping on the war wagon. If any nation understands the destruction of war, it is France and Germany.

February 8, 2003 The Catholic Church sat back and allowed Hitler to bring hell on earth to Europe. But the Pope is repeating his anti-war position louder and more frequently. If the Pope joins forces with France and Germany, a strong message will be sent to Bloody George and his Neo-Nazis.

February 8, 2003 The Taleban call for Holy war because they see the Bush war against Iraq as an extension of the Christian crusades against the Muslims. The war is being billed as a war to disarm Saddam. The truth is that it is a war to steal oil. But it really is a Christian Muslim war too.

February 8, 2003 Kofi Annan tells Bush that he should wait for the support of the U N to legitimize a war in Iraq.
Does anyone think cowboy Bush is listening?

February 8, 2003 America is living for
today. The numbing effect of 911 made the shuttle explosion last week almost unremarkable. The nation is divided on Iraq. The leadership vacuum in the White House is tragic. The President
is a moron who is focused on his daddy's war for oil in Iraq. I wish Big George would tell little George he's a man and he loves him so we can all have a chance to live in peace.

February 8, 2003 While Bush prepares to involve the world in a war for oil,
China is extending the olive branch to the Dalai Lama who may be allowed to return to Tibet.

February 8, 2003 President Chirac of France seems to be determined to veto an unjustified U S war against Iraq. The question is will he hold fast or crater and
allow the blood thirsty Warmonger Bush to unleash hell on earth and open the door to the use of nuclear weapons
worldwide.

February 8, 2003 TEN Nobel Prize-winning economists are poised to lambast President Bush's
tax-cutting plans in the latest rebellion against his fiscal policies. Another 400 top US economists, most of them academics, have also signed a
statement saying the tax cuts will lead to chronic deficits and little growth.

February 7, 2003 Bush shrugs off
North Korean threats that "pre-emptive attacks are not the exclusive right of the U.S."
God help us if during a Iraqi war North Korea strikes.

February 7, 2003 Bush warns Saddam that the end is
near. The whole world is lining up against Bush and Blair and yet little George continues to
push his war machine. The question is whether Bush possesses the certifiable insanity that will
push him to order an invasion of Iraq without a U N resolution.

February 6, 2003 France, Germany, Russia, China and Canada want the inspections to go on as opposed to endorsing a war in Iraq. As each day goes by the
resistance to the Bush war increases. Powell was credible but not
persuasive.

February 6, 2003 Blair says Britain is ready to go to war even if France
vetoes a U N resolution supporting the war. It is a war for oil to save the U S and
Britain economy. Without a war for oil, Warmonger Bush is finished in 2004
because the economy will be dead.

February 5, 2003 A war in Iraq would cause refugees to flee Iraq into Turkey and Iran creating more tension in the region.

February 2, 2003 Tony Blair tells Warmonger Bush, "Me too" regarding the use of nuclear weapons in
Iraq. Nelson Mandela says that Tony Blair is
"the foreign minister of the United States".

February 2, 2003 Israel mourns the loss of its only astronaut, the son of a holocaust survivor. All the Israeli Jews mourn the lost of this one man while they continue to murder Palestinians in their own brand of genocide; having amnesia regarding their personal memories of Hitler if they are
applied to the Palestinians.

February 1, 2003 Bush ?Ready to Use Nuclear Retaliation? in
Iraq. My bet is that he already test fired them in
Afghanistan. If Warmonger Bush opens the door to the use of nuclear weapons, then there will be
no way to persuade other nations who have them not to use them. Bush is insane.

Today
we give the final salute to the heroes of space exploration. Men and women
who dedicate and sometimes give their lives for the betterment of
humanity. Far outside the realm of wars these men and women along with
their comrades in the International Space Station - "WorldPeace Star"prove that international, racial, religious and gender barriers can be dissipated
and we can step off this tiny blue marble in peace and harmony to spread our
humanity throughout the universe and to continue to reach beyond our
limitations. Today we are reminded that nothing of great value comes
without the personal sacrifice of those among us who everyday quietly blaze
trails into the unknown in an effort to bring back knowledge and understanding
for the benefit of all of humanity.

I
cannot help but wonder why this shuttle, Columbia*,
the symbol of one of the highest technical achievements of the American people,
would just happen to explode over the state of Texas from which George Bush rose
to political power and who now prepares to use that same technology to begin a
pre-emptive attack against Iraq in violation of everything that America stands
for. Only the future will tell if this tragic event today is an omen of a
holocaust that will follow an unjustified war. It is also of note that
there was an Israeli astronaut on board. God help us.

*Columbia
- Columbia is a name sometimes used in referring
to the United States. Long before the Revolutionary War in America (1775-1783),
many people felt that America should have been named Columbia after the explorer
Christopher Columbus. During the war, colonial poets used the name to describe
the new nation that was to become the United States.

Bush is an insane egomaniac and fulfills
all the expectations of the Anti-Christ

January 31, 2003 Thank God for Ted Kennedy who finally stood up and pointed out the insanity of Warmonger Bush's intent to use nuclear weapons in Iraq.

2003 will be the year when all Americans will ask why they sat back as famine killed millions in
Africa in part due to global warming of which Americans are big contributors;
why the United States denied drugs to those suffering from AIDS, TB and Malaria
around the world; why Americans invaded Iraq for its oil and became 21st century
Nazi's; why we abandoned all morality and ethics and endorsed corporate greed on
a planetary scale; and why we allowed ourselves to follow a socio-pathetic
mental dwarf like George Bush and his posse of unilateralist warmongers and
enemies of WorldPeace to the edge of the abyss of global despair and into the
darkness of fascist oppression.

January 30, 2003 Millions are expected by the anti-war activist to march on February 15, 2003

January 30, 2003 Bush promises money to stop AIDS in Africa, but like everything other than tax cuts for the rich and his war against Iraq don't expect to see any dollars actually going to Africa to combat AIDS

January 30, 2003 Europeans and Americans are balking at a war in Iraq.
Bush and the media are playing down the resistance. But I think those
famous words of Bill Clinton are going to ring out again, "It's the economy, little Stupid."

January 30, 2003 Eight European countries issued a statement supporting Bush on Iraq. The real power houses in Europe, Germany and France, did not sign on.
England was the only real power to sign on. But eight is not enough.

January 30, 2003 The economy is going to Hell but Bush is still cutting taxes for the rich and spending like the crazy man he is on a war in Iraq.

January 27, 2003 President Hugo Chavez who has turned Venezuela into an economic nightmare and created havoc on the oil market
was embraced by the World Social Forum that he is using to further his dictatorship. He was applauded as he spoke against neo-liberalism and globalism. This is what gives liberalism a bad name, liberal dictators. HItler was a George Bush conservative fascists dictator, Stalin a liberal dictator. The
citizens of Germany and Russia could not tell the difference; because there is none.

January 27, 2003 Iraqi kids face disaster if war actually comes to Iraq. A whole new generation of terrorist.
But since they are not White, not American and not Christian, they are just collateral damage to the Bushman. Just little people standing in the way of his grab for 112 billion barrels of oil.

January 27, 2003 The conservative warmongering press begins to associate anti-war activists with anti-Americanism and liberal communism. Some things never change. Like Hitler, Bush knows all the moves and ploys to manipulate the unthinking
citizens and bring war to the world.

January 27, 2003 A quick decisive war could help the U S economy by dropping the price of oil. But the more likelihood of a prolonged war of death, destruction and hell seems to be what Warmonger Bush will reap.
God will not bless a pre-emptive strike against Iraq. Democracy will forever be seen as flawed with hypocrisy.

January 27, 2003 Colin Powell says that Bush is ready to go it alone in a war against Iraq and we need to trust the Bushman that even though no weapons of mass destruction have been found, Saddam has them.

January 26, 2003 In America you cannot discriminate legally due to race or religion. But for the Palestinians who are Israeli citizens (20% of the
population of Israel) the opposite is true. But George Bush does not speak to this issue. If Sharon had his way, the Palestinians in Israel would get the full treatment that the Jews received in Nazi
Germany including extermination.

January 26, 2003 Western anti-war activists head for Iraq to act as "Human Shields". Unfortunately, if
the socio-pathetic Bush allows 15 million Americans to go without health insurance, what
do you think is his concern over a few thousand dead liberals?

January 25, 2003 Colin Powell says that a least a dozen nations will support an invasion of Iraq.
12 out of 172. I guess you could say that 160 nations think the invasion of Iraq
would be an unprovoked war for oil.

January 25, 2003 The nearest thing to a people's United Nations, the World Social Forum
(WSF),
opened yesterday in the southern Brazilian city of Porto Alegre. As the
imperialist throwback Bush prepares to invade Iraq, a coalition gathers to
discuss the world as a whole.

January 25, 2003 The Pope got my vote when he charged the world press to report the truth and not succumb to the pressure from those with a corrupt agenda to beat the drums of war.

January 24, 2003 The
?Third World War? has begun, said Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr
Mahathir Mohamad, but it is not the war against terrorists. Rather, it is
the war being fought by peace-loving peoples against perceptions of evil.
Referring to the conflict between the United States Government and its
so-called Axis of Evil, Dr Mahathir said it would be a long war because
both sides sought revenge.

January 24, 2003 If there's one common thread joining the tens of
thousands of participants at the World Social Forum, it's globalization and
deep skepticism about what it can do for the good of mankind.

January 24, 2003 French leaders reacted angrily Thursday to U.S. Defense
Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld's dismissal of France and Germany as the "old
Europe," saying the comments underscore America's arrogance.
And so it is.

January 24, 2003 Fifteen percent of Americans - one in seven - is uninsured. And this is the way it is in the richest nation in the world. In the meantime, Bush prepares to invade Iraq even when no weapons of mass destruction have been found.

January 23, 2003 France, who has veto power on the U N security council,
and Germany have determined that there will be a peaceful resolution of the Iraq crisis. They
are standing firm on the proposition that the United Nations will determine the future of Iraq and not George Bush.

January 23, 2003 The World Social Forum opened in
Brazil. The World Social Forum is an open meeting place where
groups and movements of civil society opposed to neo-liberalism and a world
dominated by capital or by any form of imperialism, but engaged in building a
planetary society centered on the human person.

January 22, 2003 Germany will not support an Iraq attack.
The rest of the members of the U N Security Council are beginning to come to together in their opposition to an invasion of Iraq. The question is whether Bush and Blair are going to attack even if they do not get U N approval. Considering Bush's
arrogance and lust for oil, I would say the attack is on.

January 21, 2003 Bone marrow stem cells seem to be a possible solution to Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease.

January 21, 2003 China, France and Germany face off against the U S and Brittan
against a war in Iraq.

January 21, 2003 Bush talks about racial equality as he tries to sell the end of affirmative action.
In Texas, the Governor, Lt. Governor, Attorney General and U S Senator are all White Republicans.

January 21, 2003 The world shark population is in serious decline as their
domains are over fished.

January 20, 2003 Lieberman does not know his mind on affirmative action. The reality is that until there is representation of Hispanics and Blacks among the state
Governors and United States Senators (Now there are none) then affirmative action must stay in place.

January 19, 2003 The Confederate Battle Flag is to Black Americans what the Nazi flag is to the
Jews. It is an abomination which caused the death and disability of over a million Americans. To allow it to continue to fly in places other than Confederate War Memorials is to dishonor those who died to bring it and everything it represents down.

January 19, 2003 The question is what will be the
environmental impact of Saddam torching all the oil wells in Iraq?

January 19, 2003 Hitler's progeny Ariel Sharon says there will be no peace with the Palestinians unless they are a protectorate of Israel.

January 19, 2003 Warmonger Bush is going to have a hard time fighting in Iraq, North Korea and terrorist as well. Not to mention the Israel Palestinian nightmare.

January 18, 2003 War in Iraq will bring significant oil shortfalls due to the present 80% reduction in oil production from Venezuela. That means rising gasoline and heating oil prices and a worldwide economic downturn.

January 18, 2003 Anti Iraq War protesters mobilize around the world while the majority of the world stands by and watches as America shifts from a democracy defending freedom to a imperialist nation intent on taking oil or anything else it wants from any nation it wants.

January 17, 2003 Tens of millions of Americans have no health insurance and the simplistic Bush is blaming it all on the medical malpractice lawyers. Malpractice suits may be part of the problem but they are only the tip of the iceberg. The insurance companies will take the money they save on legal fees and put it in their pocket. The consumer will not see any of it and few American if any will be able to afford health insurance even then.

January 17, 2003 All Americans are not behind the Bush war for oil. The question is why aren't all Americans
against an unjustified undeniable American war of aggression for the sole purpose of confiscating Iraqi oil. Who really believes the weapons of mass destruction cover story.

January 16, 2003 Bush is against affirmative action even considering the fact that there are no Hispanic or Black Governors or United States Senators and intends to file a brief in the Supreme Court in an attempt to end affirmative action in colleges.

January 14, 2003 Bush's reliance on the U N inspections to support his war on Saddam isn't working. But few believe that will deter him from going ahead with his war on Iraq. It is amazing how much power Bush has to create hell on earth and how little incentive he has to use that same power to increase the level of WorldPeace.

January 13, 2003 The Pope against condemns Bush's
war. Too bad he isn't younger. Too bad his message is not stronger.

January 13, 2003 Warmonger Bush continues to build up troops in the Middle East. Is there any way to stop the insanity.
Will America allow George to be the first President to execute a pre-emptive strike against another nation: over oil.

January 13, 2003 After seven weeks, the U N inspectors are finding nothing in Iraq but Bush and Blair continue to prepare to invade Iraq. When they do, all the principles of a Democratic society will disappear into pure hypocrisy.

January 13, 2003 It is too bad that cloning is associated with the Raelians. That being said, many times it is those who operate outside conventional thinking who are responsible for advances in science and sometimes changes that redirect the entire human society.

January 12, 2003 Genetic testing creates morality issues
because we have a choice to test and abort fetuses that will undeniably live a life of pain and
suffering and burden families for their natural life.

January 12, 2003 In Iran you can get the death penalty for drinking alcohol because it is a religious sin that has become a social crime.

January 12, 2003 In the movie "Blade Runner"
clones were hunted down and killed by the police. A Florida judge has ordered Clonaid to identify the clone they allegedly created and what the movie referred to as a "skin job".
What will the judge do with the clone when he finds her?

January 12, 2003 In the book of Revelation it says that the church will be in chaos when Jesus returns. The Catholic church is
presently in chaos because of
the inherent defect within all religious bureaucracies:
The primary objective is to first preserve the bureaucracy and secondarily to spread the spiritual
message. Consequently, pedophiles abound in the Catholic church.

January 12, 2003 The governor of Illinois ended the death penalty because innocent people die.
From a religious perspective, only the body dies. However, some people are determined
by the criminal justice system to be so rotten that they should have their life cut short. We are all going to
die. The death penalty just shortens the life of the body. As an attorney, I know that one of the rare commodities in the court house is justice.
Yet I support the death penalty because society has a right to control the
increase in crime that manifests without the death penalty as a possibility.

January 11, 2003 Ariel Sharon is in trouble with the Israelis not because he commits genocide against the Palestinians but because of his corrupt business
dealings.

January 11, 2003 The melting Greenland ice sheet is bringing unseasonably cold weather to England. Global warming is real and the shifting weather patterns are going to continue to wreak havoc around the
world with winter storms, flooding and famine.

January 11, 2003 Ariel Sharon, the one man Palestinian
holocaust has been caught in his own corruption.

January 10, 2003 Cloning: Each human being has a soul.
Do clones? This is the real question. The cloning discussion is just beginning and none of the sacred religious texts have the
answers.

January 9, 2003 Relatives of the 911 victims visit Iraq to talk about peace. Aren't the 4,000 victims of 911 avenged by the 100,000 human beings we killed in Afghanistan?
George says no. All Middle East Muslims must die.

January 7, 2003 Israel says it wants peace but then it bars the Palestinian leadership from attending a peace conference held by Tony Blair in Britain. I think when Sharon talks about peace and the Palestinians, he means
"rest in peace".

January 7, 2003 Salma Hayek says Hollywood is prejudice against Mexicans. Does she know there are no Hispanic governors in the United States and no Hispanic United States Senators? It's not just Mexicans Salma, its all Hispanics.

January 6, 2003 A double suicide attack in Tel Aviv again reminds the Israelis that they are not bullet proof. You reap what you sow. And when you sow the wind, you eventually reap the whirlwind.
When Israelis murder Palestinians, they kill their friends and neighbors in
Israel.

January 6, 2003 South Koreans lead the way to solve the nuclear crisis in North Korea

January 5, 2003 Not a shred of evidence that Saddam has any weapons of mass
destruction. All the unannounced raids by the U N inspectors have come up
empty 230 times. Yet there is a feeling that the lack of evidence will not
deter the Bushman and his war on Iraq. He can always point to the fact
that if he can't find Osama bin-Laden then why should he have to find real
evidence of Saddam's weapons of mass destruction.

January 5, 2003 Actor's are making their political visits to Cuba when they
should follow Sean Penn to Baghdad

January 5, 2003 The Democrats need a left wing voice to challenge the
arrogant buffoonery of the closet Nazi Rush Limbaugh

January 4, 2003 Clonaid says a second clone has been born. A new age
of super human gods and sub human slaves has begun as we assume the
role of God creating our own Garden of Eden or Hell on earth.

January 4, 2003 The invasion of Iraq is about the oil stupid; not weapons
of mass destruction, not human rights

January 2, 2003 Little George's brain is about to explode as his
warmongering gets more
complicated by the day.

January 2, 2003 God's chosen, the Jews, use Palestinians as human shields as they murder rock
throwing Palestinian children. I guess their faith in the Palestinians
ability to stop bullets is greater than their belief in God's desire to protect
them.